On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:20:21PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:59:01PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > Btw, why is there no clean up if nft_table_validate() fails? > > See below. > > > net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c > > 3432 list_add_tail_rcu(&rule->list, &old_rule->list); > > 3433 else > > 3434 list_add_rcu(&rule->list, &chain->rules); > > 3435 } > > 3436 } > > 3437 kvfree(expr_info); > > 3438 chain->use++; > > 3439 > > 3440 if (flow) > > 3441 nft_trans_flow_rule(trans) = flow; > > 3442 > > 3443 if (nft_net->validate_state == NFT_VALIDATE_DO) > > 3444 return nft_table_validate(net, table); > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > The cleanup for this would be quite involved unfortunately... Not > > necessarily something to attempt without being able to test the code. > > At this stage, the transaction has been already registered in the > list, and the nf_tables_abort() path takes care of undoing what has > been updated in the preparation phase. > Ah... Thanks. regards, dan carpenter