Re: [PATCH 2/3] network: tcp_connect should return certain errorsup the stack

[David Miller]

From: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:52:49 -0500

> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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