[PATCH V3] audit: normalize NETFILTER_PKT

Florian Westphal fw at strlen.de
Fri Mar 3 13:22:01 UTC 2017


Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de> wrote:
> > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Perhaps I'm missing something here, but let me ask again, how does
> >> > userspace distinguish between an unset nfmark and a nfmark of
> >> > 0xffffffff?
> >>
> >> It can't.
> >
> > It can if you log it as 0, as I asked in patch 1 review.
> >
> > (You wouldn't log sk uid of 0 as -1 either, would you?)
> 
> I want to see the code able to handle the full range of nfmark values
> as well as the unset case; if that means we need to tweak userspace a
> bit, please work with Steve on that.

There is no 'unset nfmark'.  Its just a 32bit integer.




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