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From: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	pablo@netfilter.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	balazs.scheidler@balabit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 3/7] netfilter: add NF_INET_LOCAL_SOCKET_IN chain type
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:54:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560BA345.40504@zonque.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1509300938060.9960@nerf40.vanv.qr>

On 09/30/2015 09:40 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 2015-09-30 09:24, Daniel Mack wrote:
>>
>>> Drop?  Makes no sense, else application would not be running in the first
>>> place.
>>
>> Of course you can drop certain packets at this point, depending on other
>> details. Say, for instance, you want to match all packets that are
>> received by a certain task [...]
>> Another use case is accounting. If you want to know how much traffic a
>> certain service or application in your system has caused
> 
> But the sk info would be available in INPUT already, would it not?

No, only for established connections, as those are subject to early
demux which sets skb->sk. For all other packets, netfilter callbacks are
called with skb->sk == NULL.

That's the whole point of this patch set ;)


Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-29 11:12 [PATCH RFC 0/7] netfilter: introduce new chain type for local socket input Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] netfilter: add socket to struct nft_pktinfo Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 18:25   ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] netfilter: nft_meta: look at pkt->sk rather than skb->sk Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 13:37   ` kbuild test robot
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] netfilter: add NF_INET_LOCAL_SOCKET_IN chain type Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 21:19   ` Florian Westphal
2015-09-30  7:24     ` Daniel Mack
2015-09-30  7:40       ` Jan Engelhardt
2015-09-30  8:54         ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2015-09-30 21:48       ` Florian Westphal
2015-10-01  9:04         ` Daniel Mack
2015-10-01 17:13       ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2015-10-01 21:07         ` Daniel Mack
2015-10-01 21:34           ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2015-10-02 11:07           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-10-02 13:52             ` Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] net: tcp_ipv4, udp_ipv4: hook up LOCAL_SOCKET_IN netfilter chains Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] net: tcp_ipv6, udp_ipv6: " Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] net: sctp: " Daniel Mack
2015-09-29 11:12 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] net: dccp: " Daniel Mack

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