The following nftables test case fails on nf-next: tests/shell/run-tests.sh tests/shell/testcases/transactions/0011chain_0 The test case contains: add chain x y { type filter hook input priority 0; } add chain x y { policy drop; }" The new test if (chain->flags ^ flags) return -EOPNOTSUPP; triggers here, because chain->flags has NFT_BASE_CHAIN set, but flags is 0 because no flag attribute was present in the policy update. Just fetch the current flag settings of a pre-existing chain in case userspace did not provide any. Fixes: c9626a2cbdb20 ("netfilter: nf_tables: add hardware offload support") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index add64bd227a8..5746a7c948fe 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -1914,6 +1914,8 @@ static int nf_tables_newchain(struct net *net, struct sock *nlsk, if (nla[NFTA_CHAIN_FLAGS]) flags = ntohl(nla_get_be32(nla[NFTA_CHAIN_FLAGS])); + else if (chain) + flags = chain->flags; nft_ctx_init(&ctx, net, skb, nlh, family, table, chain, nla); -- 2.21.0