From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932738Ab2DDTmQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:42:16 -0400 Received: from ka.mail.enyo.de ([87.106.162.201]:47423 "EHLO ka.mail.enyo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932401Ab2DDTmP (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:42:15 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1513 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:42:15 EDT From: Florian Weimer To: Martin Lucina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement IP_EVIL socket option (RFC 3514) References: <1333284791-5363-1-git-send-email-martin@lucina.net> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:17:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1333284791-5363-1-git-send-email-martin@lucina.net> (Martin Lucina's message of "Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:53:11 +0200") Message-ID: <87r4w3nw7n.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Martin Lucina: > This patch implements the IP_EVIL socket option, allowing user-space > applications to set the Security Flag in the IPv4 Header, aka "evil" bit, > as defined in RFC 3514. I need this to fix a security issue. Could this be merged for real, please?