Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] SELinux: return -ECONNREFUSED from ip_postroute to signal fatal error | From | Eric Paris <> | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:38:59 -0500 |
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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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