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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:07:40 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter@...r.kernel.org, paul.moore@...com,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, sds@...ho.nsa.gov, jengelh@...ozas.de,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, mr.dash.four@...glemail.com,
	pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] secmark: do not return early if there was no error

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Eric Paris wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:38 +1100, James Morris wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Eric Paris wrote:
> > 
> > > Commit 4a5a5c73 attempted to pass decent error messages back to userspace for
> > > netfilter errors.  In xt_SECMARK.c however the patch screwed up and returned
> > > on 0 (aka no error) early and didn't finish setting up secmark.  This results
> > > in a kernel BUG if you use SECMARK.
> > > 
> > 
> > Does this need to go into current Linus?
> 
> It's been broken since v2.6.35-rc1 so it's not exactly new, but yes,
> it's broken and will bug like this in current Linus.

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

(Guessing this should go in via the networking tree).


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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