Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > Do not drop a netdev-family chain if the last interface it is registered > for vanishes. Users dumping and storing the ruleset upon shutdown for > restore upon next boot may otherwise lose the chain and all contained > rules. They will still lose the list of devices, a later patch will fix > that. For now, this aligns the event handler's behaviour with that for > flowtables. > The controversal situation at netns exit should be no problem here: > event handler will unregister the hooks, core nftables cleanup code will > drop the chain itself. This "breaks" W: [DUMP FAIL] 1/2 tests/shell/testcases/json/netdev W: [DUMP FAIL] 2/2 tests/shell/testcases/chains/netdev_chain_0 any suggestions on how to handle this? We can't fix the dump because old kernel will axe the empty basechain. Should the dump files be removed?
