Linux – What do the fields in /proc/net/ipt_hashlimit/FILE mean

I think it depends on you to make the kernel knows which is blackhole address type.

From xt_addrtype.h file in iptables source code, you can see:

/* rtn_type enum values from rtnetlink.h, but shifted */                        
enum {                                                                          
    XT_ADDRTYPE_UNSPEC = 1 << 0,                                                
    XT_ADDRTYPE_UNICAST = 1 << 1,   /* 1 << RTN_UNICAST */                      
    XT_ADDRTYPE_LOCAL  = 1 << 2,    /* 1 << RTN_LOCAL, etc */                   
    XT_ADDRTYPE_BROADCAST = 1 << 3,                                             
    XT_ADDRTYPE_ANYCAST = 1 << 4,                                               
    XT_ADDRTYPE_MULTICAST = 1 << 5,                                             
    XT_ADDRTYPE_BLACKHOLE = 1 << 6,                                             
    XT_ADDRTYPE_UNREACHABLE = 1 << 7,                                           
    XT_ADDRTYPE_PROHIBIT = 1 << 8,                                              
    XT_ADDRTYPE_THROW = 1 << 9,                                                 
    XT_ADDRTYPE_NAT = 1 << 10,                                                  
    XT_ADDRTYPE_XRESOLVE = 1 << 11,                                             
};

And in rtnetlink.h, you will see the same definition:

enum {                                                                          
    RTN_UNSPEC,                                                                 
    RTN_UNICAST,        /* Gateway or direct route  */                          
    RTN_LOCAL,      /* Accept locally       */                                  
    RTN_BROADCAST,      /* Accept locally as broadcast,                         
                   send as broadcast */                                         
    RTN_ANYCAST,        /* Accept locally as broadcast,                         
                   but send as unicast */                                       
    RTN_MULTICAST,      /* Multicast route      */                              
    RTN_BLACKHOLE,      /* Drop             */                                  
    RTN_UNREACHABLE,    /* Destination is unreachable   */                      
    RTN_PROHIBIT,       /* Administratively prohibited  */                      
    RTN_THROW,      /* Not in this table        */                              
    RTN_NAT,        /* Translate this address   */                              
    RTN_XRESOLVE,       /* Use external resolver    */                          
    __RTN_MAX                                                                   
};

You can see iptables use the same definition of address type with kernel tcp networking stack.

Then from man ip:

Route types:

      unicast - the route entry describes real paths to the destinations covered by the route prefix.

      unreachable  - these destinations are unreachable.  Packets are discarded and the ICMP message host unreachable is generated.
               The local senders get an EHOSTUNREACH error.

      blackhole - these destinations are unreachable.  Packets are discarded silently.  The local senders get an EINVAL error.

      prohibit - these destinations are unreachable.  Packets are discarded and the  ICMP  message  communication  administratively
               prohibited is generated.  The local senders get an EACCES error.

      local - the destinations are assigned to this host.  The packets are looped back and delivered locally.

      broadcast - the destinations are broadcast addresses.  The packets are sent as link broadcasts.

      throw  - a special control route used together with policy rules. If such a route is selected, lookup in this table is termi‐
               nated pretending that no route was found.  Without policy routing it is equivalent to the absence of the route in the routing
               table.   The  packets  are  dropped  and the ICMP message net unreachable is generated.  The local senders get an ENETUNREACH
               error.

      nat - a special NAT route.  Destinations covered by the prefix are considered to  be  dummy  (or  external)  addresses  which
               require  translation  to  real  (or  internal)  ones  before forwarding.  The addresses to translate to are selected with the
               attribute Warning: Route NAT is no longer supported in Linux 2.6.

               via.

      anycast - not implemented the destinations are anycast addresses assigned to this host.  They are mainly equivalent to  local
               with one difference: such addresses are invalid when used as the source address of any packet.

      multicast - a special type used for multicast routing.  It is not present in normal routing tables.

So when you define a route to a network by ip command and mark it as a blackhole route, the kernel now make this network address blackhole type:

ip route add blackhole X.X.X.X/24

/proc/net/dev contains statistics about network interfaces, while /proc/<pid>/net/dev contains statistics about network interfaces from the process' point of view.

I suppose that if a process runs on a network namespace (see man ip-netns) where it has access only to a limited set of interfaces, only these will show up in /proc/<pid>/net/dev.