Re: [RFC] netfilter: nf_tables: ignore -EOPNOTSUPP on flowtable device offload setup

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Hi Felix,

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 10:14:20PM +0200, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> On many embedded devices, it is common to configure flowtable offloading for
> a mix of different devices, some of which have hardware offload support and
> some of which don't.
> The current code limits the ability of user space to properly set up such a
> configuration by only allowing adding devices with hardware offload support to
> a offload-enabled flowtable.
> Given that offload-enabled flowtables also imply fallback to pure software
> offloading, this limitation makes little sense.
> Fix it by not bailing out when the offload setup returns -EOPNOTSUPP

Would you send a v2 to untoggle the offload flag when listing the
ruleset if EOPNOTSUPP is reported? Thus, the user knows that no
hardware offload is being used.

> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
> ---
>  net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> index 41b826dff6f5..dfa2ea98088b 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
> @@ -8103,7 +8103,7 @@ static int nft_register_flowtable_net_hooks(struct net *net,
>  		err = flowtable->data.type->setup(&flowtable->data,
>  						  hook->ops.dev,
>  						  FLOW_BLOCK_BIND);
> -		if (err < 0)
> +		if (err < 0 && err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
>  			goto err_unregister_net_hooks;
>  
>  		err = nf_register_net_hook(net, &hook->ops);
> -- 
> 2.41.0
>