netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] SELinux: Only return netlink error when we know the return is fatal

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Message-Id: <20101123.105915.59672943.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:59:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.moore@...com
Cc:	eparis@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	sds@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] SELinux: Only return netlink error when we know
 the return is fatal

From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:32:35 -0500

> On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:28 -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
>> Some of the SELinux netlink code returns a fatal error when the error might
>> actually be transient.  This patch just silently drops packets on
>> potentially transient errors but continues to return a permanant error
>> indicator when the denial was because of policy.
>> 
>> Based-on-comments-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> 
> Thanks for fixing this up.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Applied.
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