This example ruleset is missing the chain declaration: add table x add set x y { typeof ip saddr ; } add rule x y counter After this patch, error reporting provides suggestions for the missing chain: # nft -f ruleset.nft ruleset.nft:3:12-12: Error: No such file or directory; did you mean chain ‘INPUT’ in table ip ‘filter’? add rule x y counter ^ Before this patch, it incorrectly refers to the table: ruleset.nft:3:10-10: Error: No such file or directory; did you mean table ‘filter’ in family ip? add rule x y counter ^ This patch invalidates the table that is found via fuzzy lookup if it exists in the cache. Fixes: 0276c2fee939 ("cmd: check for table mismatch first in error reporting") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/cmd.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/cmd.c b/src/cmd.c index 8d4bf8bc13aa..d956919b6b5e 100644 --- a/src/cmd.c +++ b/src/cmd.c @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ static int nft_cmd_enoent_table(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, const struct cmd *cmd, static int table_fuzzy_check(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, const struct cmd *cmd, const struct table *table) { + if (table_cache_find(&ctx->nft->cache.table_cache, + cmd->handle.table.name, cmd->handle.family)) + return 0; + if (strcmp(cmd->handle.table.name, table->handle.table.name) || cmd->handle.family != table->handle.family) { netlink_io_error(ctx, &cmd->handle.table.location, -- 2.20.1