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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: netlink: filter particular protocols from
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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:59:28 +0200

> On 09/05/2013 09:54 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
>> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:48:00 +0200
>>
>>> With socket(PF_PACKET, ..., htons(ETH_P_ALL)) you will already get
>>> all users from the suggested white-list of the patch, which is the
>>> majority of netlink users I believe. Hence, you do not need to have
>>> one socket per protocol. skbs from there should get dragged into
>>> pf_packet via dev_queue_xmit_nit() which works on ptype_all list.
>>
>> What about user level netlink protocols?
> 
> If you are referring to NETLINK_USERSOCK, then we let this pass here,
> so nothing changes.

Ok, I've applied this, thanks Daniel.