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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-11-16 12:52:49 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-11-17 19:54:35 +0100 |
| commit | ee58681195bf243bafc44ca53f3c24429d096cce (patch) | |
| tree | 938c3f2f2b6db4d43429c28f2ca67650e12829f1 /security | |
| parent | netfilter: allow hooks to pass error code back up the stack (diff) | |
| download | linux-ee58681195bf243bafc44ca53f3c24429d096cce.tar.xz linux-ee58681195bf243bafc44ca53f3c24429d096cce.zip | |
network: tcp_connect should return certain errors up the stack
The current tcp_connect code completely ignores errors from sending an skb.
This makes sense in many situations (like -ENOBUFFS) but I want to be able to
immediately fail connections if they are denied by the SELinux netfilter hook.
Netfilter does not normally return ECONNREFUSED when it drops a packet so we
respect that error code as a final and fatal error that can not be recovered.
Based-on-patch-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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