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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi,
	jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net,
	paul.moore@hp.com
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect failed
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:15:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289578532.3185.265.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289578108.3083.95.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Le vendredi 12 novembre 2010 à 11:08 -0500, Eric Paris a écrit :

> 2) What should the generic TCP code (tcp_connect()) do if the skb failed
> to send.  Should it return error codes back up the stack somehow or
> should they continue to be ignored?  Obviously continuing to just ignore
> information we have doesn't make me happy (otherwise I wouldn't have
> started scratching this itch).  But the point about ENOBUFS is well
> taken.  Maybe I should make tcp_connect(), or the caller to
> tcp_connect() more intelligent about specific error codes?
> 
> I'm looking for a path forward.  If SELinux is rejecting the SYN packets
> on connect() I want to pass that info to userspace rather than just
> hanging.  What's the best way to accomplish that?
> 

Eric, if you can differentiate a permanent reject, instead of a
temporary one (congestion, or rate limiting, or ENOBUF, or ...), then
yes, you could make tcp_connect() report to user the permanent error,
and ignore the temporary one.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-11 21:03 [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect failed Eric Paris
2010-11-11 21:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 21:58 ` Hua Zhong
2010-11-12  7:36   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-12 23:14     ` Hua Zhong
2010-11-15 10:32       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-15 15:47         ` Eric Paris
2010-11-15 15:57           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-15 16:04             ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-15 16:36             ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-15 16:46               ` David Miller
2010-11-15 20:00           ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-11-12 16:08   ` Eric Paris
2010-11-12 16:15     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-11-12 16:35       ` David Lamparter
2010-11-12 16:53         ` Eric Paris
2010-11-12 16:54         ` Patrick McHardy
2010-11-12 17:57           ` a problem tcp_v4_err() Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-11-12 18:12             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 18:21               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 18:27                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 18:31                   ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-11-12 18:29               ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-11-12 18:33                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 19:22                   ` David Miller
2010-11-12 21:18                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 21:36                       ` David Miller
2010-11-12 21:16           ` [RFC PATCH] network: return errors if we know tcp_connect failed David Lamparter
2010-11-12 21:18             ` David Miller
2010-11-12 17:46 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2010-11-12 19:28   ` David Miller

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