From b8b27498659c65034032af79842913844a6cc79a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 23:20:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: return immediately on empty commit
When running 'nft flush ruleset' while no rules exist, we will increment
the generation counter and announce a new genid to userspace, yet
nothing had changed in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 9d8f51dfc5936..513f931186043 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6564,6 +6564,11 @@ static int nf_tables_commit(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb)
struct nft_chain *chain;
struct nft_table *table;
+ if (list_empty(&net->nft.commit_list)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&net->nft.commit_mutex);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* 0. Validate ruleset, otherwise roll back for error reporting. */
if (nf_tables_validate(net) < 0)
return -EAGAIN;
--
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