From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/29] netfilter: notify about NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:18:56 +0100 Message-ID: <1172333937.6374.47.camel@twins> References: <20070221144304.512721000@taijtu.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20070221144843.299254000@taijtu.programming.kicks-ass.net> <45E05954.8050204@trash.net> <1172332010.28579.6.camel@lappy> <45E064FF.8010000@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust , Thomas Graf , David Miller To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from amsfep16-int.chello.nl ([62.179.120.11]:44999 "EHLO amsfep16-int.chello.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933521AbXBXQZE (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:25:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45E064FF.8010000@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.