network: tcp_connect should return certain errors up the stack
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:52:49 +0000 (11:52 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:54:35 +0000 (10:54 -0800)
commitee58681195bf243bafc44ca53f3c24429d096cce
tree938c3f2f2b6db4d43429c28f2ca67650e12829f1
parentda6836500414ae734cd9873c2d553db594f831e9
network: tcp_connect should return certain errors up the stack

The current tcp_connect code completely ignores errors from sending an skb.
This makes sense in many situations (like -ENOBUFFS) but I want to be able to
immediately fail connections if they are denied by the SELinux netfilter hook.
Netfilter does not normally return ECONNREFUSED when it drops a packet so we
respect that error code as a final and fatal error that can not be recovered.

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>
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c