From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>, wintre <mikeacar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DROP still returns -EPERM to userspace in OUTPUT chain
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:56:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1AB1B4.6010700@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A18100B.1080803@netfilter.org>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> So just wanting to know - are people supposed to use xt_STEAL instead
>> if they really want it silently dropped?
>
> Well, I still would like to know any application that can benefit from
> this, apart from broken applications.
I'd suggest to encode an errno code in the verdict and return that
one. Currently we're not able to propagate f.i. -EHOSTUNREACH from
ip_route_me_harder() and always return -EPERM. This could then be
used to make the errno code configurable for DROP, similar to
unreachable routes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-25 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-22 9:44 DROP still returns -EPERM to userspace in OUTPUT chain Jan Engelhardt
2009-05-23 10:47 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-05-23 11:11 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-05-23 11:43 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-05-23 13:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-05-23 15:02 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-05-25 14:56 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-06-07 4:22 ` Mike Acar
2009-06-08 13:56 ` Patrick McHardy
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