Re: [PATCH 3/3] SELinux: return -ECONNREFUSED from ip_postroute tosignal fatal error

[Patrick McHardy]

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.
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