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From: Valentina Giusti <valentina.giusti@bmw-carit•de>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>
Cc: <netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	<jpa@google•com>, <pablo@netfilter•org>,
	<daniel.wagner@bmw-carit•de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] netfilter_queue: enable UID/GID socket info retrieval
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:10:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B45DDA.5050504@bmw-carit.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131220150324.GB29632@breakpoint.cc>

On 12/20/2013 04:03 PM, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Valentina Giusti <valentina.giusti@bmw-carit•de> wrote:
>>> I think this should be 'return 0'?
>> I put return -1 because I think that if userspace has requested to
>> receive UID and GID, then it should be dumped only packets that have
>> that information available.
>> Are you suggesting that it should be otherwise?
>
> Yes, doing that doesn't make sense to me.
> And it is inconsitent:
> Packets without socket information are queued normally
> in your patch, but suddently if its a timewait socket
> its an error?
>
> Why would we want timewait packets to NOT be queued?
> vs. for example forwarded packets?
>
> Userspace can test for presence of the attributes, i.e.
> no NFQA_UID attribute -> no socket present, or lack of uid
> information.
>
> If you have a counter-example?
>

Sorry no, I think you are right, thanks for the explanation. Should I 
resend the patch or is it a change small enough that can be done when 
applied? Unless there are still other comments, ofc.

Thanks,
- Val

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-20 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-20 12:33 [PATCH v3 0/2] Add UID/GID info to NFQUEUE valentina.giusti
2013-12-20 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] netfilter_queue: enable UID/GID socket info retrieval valentina.giusti
2013-12-20 14:09   ` Florian Westphal
2013-12-20 14:32     ` Valentina Giusti
2013-12-20 15:03       ` Florian Westphal
2013-12-20 15:10         ` Valentina Giusti [this message]
2013-12-20 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] libnetfilter_queue: add support for UID/GID socket info valentina.giusti

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