Sometimes users forget to turn on nftables extensions from Kconfig that
they need. In such case, the error reporting from userspace is
misleading:
$ sudo nft add rule x y counter
Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory
add rule x y counter
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Add missing NL_SET_BAD_ATTR() to provide a hint:
$ nft add rule x y counter
Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory
add rule x y counter
^^^^^^^
Fixes: 83d9dcba06c5 ("netfilter: nf_tables: extended netlink error reporting for expressions")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index d63d2d8f769c..5a02b48af7fb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -3328,8 +3328,10 @@ static int nf_tables_newrule(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nfnl_info *info,
if (n == NFT_RULE_MAXEXPRS)
goto err1;
err = nf_tables_expr_parse(&ctx, tmp, &expr_info[n]);
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err < 0) {
+ NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(extack, tmp);
goto err1;
+ }
size += expr_info[n].ops->size;
n++;
}
--
2.30.2
