Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:56:06 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20101117.105606.245401574.davem@davemloft.net>
To: eparis@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
        equinox@diac24.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, hzhong@gmail.com,
        jmorris@namei.org, kaber@trash.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
        paul.moore@hp.com, pekkas@netcore.fi, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
        yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] SELinux: return -ECONNREFUSED from ip_postroute to
 signal fatal error
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:52:57 -0500

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

Applied.
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