No need to have the datapath call the always-true comment match stub. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_compat.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c b/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c index f69cc73c5813..5a46d8289d1d 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_compat.c @@ -731,6 +731,14 @@ static const struct nfnetlink_subsystem nfnl_compat_subsys = { static struct nft_expr_type nft_match_type; +static bool nft_match_reduce(struct nft_regs_track *track, + const struct nft_expr *expr) +{ + const struct xt_match *match = expr->ops->data; + + return strcmp(match->name, "comment") == 0; +} + static const struct nft_expr_ops * nft_match_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, const struct nlattr * const tb[]) @@ -773,6 +781,7 @@ nft_match_select_ops(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, ops->dump = nft_match_dump; ops->validate = nft_match_validate; ops->data = match; + ops->reduce = nft_match_reduce; matchsize = NFT_EXPR_SIZE(XT_ALIGN(match->matchsize)); if (matchsize > NFT_MATCH_LARGE_THRESH) { -- 2.34.1