linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/29] netfilter: notify about NF

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Message-Id: <1172333937.6374.47.camel@twins>
Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:18:56 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/29] netfilter: notify about NF_QUEUE vs
	emergency	skbs

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 17:17 +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> I don't really see why
> queueing is special though, dropping the packets in the ruleset
> will break things just as well, as will routing them to a blackhole.
> I guess the user just needs to be smart enough not to do this.

Its user-space and no emergency packet may rely on user-space because it
most likely is needed to maintain user-space.

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