4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3f0465a9ef02 ("netfilter: nf_tables: dynamically allocate hooks per net_device in flowtables") reworks flowtable support to allow for dynamic allocation of hooks, which implicitly fixes the following bogus EBUSY in transaction: delete flowtable add flowtable # same flowtable with same devices, it hits EBUSY This patch does not exist in any tree, but it fixes this issue for -stable Linux kernel 4.19 Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -5956,6 +5956,9 @@ static int nf_tables_newflowtable(struct continue; list_for_each_entry(ft, &table->flowtables, list) { + if (!nft_is_active_next(net, ft)) + continue; + for (k = 0; k < ft->ops_len; k++) { if (!ft->ops[k].dev) continue;