On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:13:02AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:05:05AM CEST, pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:02:00AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote: > >> Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:53:38PM CEST, pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> >If the frontend requests no stats through FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_DISABLED, > >> >drivers that are checking for the hw stats configuration bail out with > >> >EOPNOTSUPP. > >> > >> Wait, that was a point. Driver has to support stats disabling. > > > >Hm, some drivers used to accept FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_DISABLED, now > >rulesets that used to work don't work anymore. > > How? This check is here since the introduction of hw stats types. Netfilter is setting the counter support to FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_DISABLED in this example below: table netdev filter { chain ingress { type filter hook ingress device eth0 priority 0; flags offload; tcp dport 22 drop } } The user did not specify a counter in this case. I think __flow_action_hw_stats_check() cannot work with FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_DISABLED. If check_allow_bit is false and FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_DISABLED is specified, then this always evaluates true: if (!check_allow_bit && action_entry->hw_stats != FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_ANY) { Similarly: } else if (check_allow_bit && !(action_entry->hw_stats & BIT(allow_bit))) { evaluates true for FLOW_ACTION_HW_STATS_DISABLED, assuming allow_bit is set, which I think it is the intention. Another suggestion: This is control plane code and this __flow_action_hw_stats_check() function is relatively large, I'd suggest to move it to net/core/flow_offload.c at some point. Thank you!