From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: netlink: filter particular protocols from analyzers
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:59:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5228E2A0.4010607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130905.155417.2121308426258876038.davem@davemloft.net>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 15:48 [PATCH net] net: netlink: filter particular protocols from analyzers Daniel Borkmann
2013-09-05 18:44 ` David Miller
2013-09-05 18:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05 19:03 ` David Miller
2013-09-05 19:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-09-05 19:50 ` David Miller
2013-09-05 19:48 ` Daniel Borkmann
2013-09-05 19:54 ` David Miller
2013-09-05 19:59 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2013-09-05 20:07 ` David Miller
2013-09-06 18:47 ` David Miller
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