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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] SELinux: return -ECONNREFUSED from ip_postroute to signal fatal error
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On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:43 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 16.11.2010 22:52, Eric Paris wrote:
> > The SELinux netfilter hooks just return NF_DROP if they drop a packet. We
> > want to signal that a drop in this hook is a permanant fatal error and is not
> > transient. If we do this the error will be passed back up the stack in some
> > places and applications will get a faster interaction that something went
> > wrong.
>
> Looks good to me. I'd suggest to have these patches go through Dave's
> tree since I want to make use of the netfilter error propagation
> mechanism to return proper errno codes for netfilter re-routing
> failures.


I'd be happy if Dave pulled patches 1 and 2. I can resend patch #3 once
I can cajole another of the SELinux maintainers to look at it (I believe
he most likely one is on vacation this week)

-Eric



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