Re: [PATCH 18/29] netfilter: notify about NF_QUEUE vsemergency skbs

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Feb 24 2007 - 11:25:35 EST


On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 17:17 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> I don't really see why
> queueing is special though, dropping the packets in the ruleset
> will break things just as well, as will routing them to a blackhole.
> I guess the user just needs to be smart enough not to do this.

Its user-space and no emergency packet may rely on user-space because it
most likely is needed to maintain user-space.

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