From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:52:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: netfilter: allow hooks to pass error code back up the stack
X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da6836500414ae734cd9873c2d553db594f831e9;p=linux-edison.git

netfilter: allow hooks to pass error code back up the stack

SELinux would like to pass certain fatal errors back up the stack.  This patch
implements the generic netfilter support for this functionality.

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>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter.h b/include/linux/netfilter.h
index 03317c8d407..1893837b396 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter.h
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 
 #define NF_QUEUE_NR(x) ((((x) << NF_VERDICT_BITS) & NF_VERDICT_QMASK) | NF_QUEUE)
 
+#define NF_DROP_ERR(x) (((-x) << NF_VERDICT_BITS) | NF_DROP)
+
 /* only for userspace compatibility */
 #ifndef __KERNEL__
 /* Generic cache responses from hook functions.
diff --git a/net/netfilter/core.c b/net/netfilter/core.c
index 85dabb86be6..32fcbe290c0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -173,9 +173,11 @@ next_hook:
 			     outdev, &elem, okfn, hook_thresh);
 	if (verdict == NF_ACCEPT || verdict == NF_STOP) {
 		ret = 1;
-	} else if (verdict == NF_DROP) {
+	} else if ((verdict & NF_VERDICT_MASK) == NF_DROP) {
 		kfree_skb(skb);
-		ret = -EPERM;
+		ret = -(verdict >> NF_VERDICT_BITS);
+		if (ret == 0)
+			ret = -EPERM;
 	} else if ((verdict & NF_VERDICT_MASK) == NF_QUEUE) {
 		if (!nf_queue(skb, elem, pf, hook, indev, outdev, okfn,
 			      verdict >> NF_VERDICT_BITS))