Re: [PATCH V3] audit: normalize NETFILTER_PKT

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On 2017-03-03 14:22, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I was going to say, we'd need an out of band indicator.

- RGB

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