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From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Garver <e@erig.me>
Subject: Re: [nf-next PATCH v3 06/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Tolerate chains with no remaining hooks
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:16:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZyOfSncM-phz6SFm@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241031143736.GA25657@breakpoint.cc>

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 03:37:36PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> > AFAIR, we did just that in the past with such cases. I agree, it pretty
> > much breaks any efforts at making the testsuite usable with stable
> > kernels.
> > 
> > > Should the dump files be removed?
> > 
> > Maybe "feature flag" it and introduce a mechanism for test cases to
> > revert to a different dump file?
> 
> What could be good enough:
> 1. fix dump files
> 2. add feature flag, if feature not present -> exit 77/skip to elide
> dump compare.

Reasonably simple to provide backwards compat (and still keeping the
actual test active)!

> Would you explore this?

Will do!

Thanks, Phil

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-31 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-12 12:21 [nf-next PATCH v3 00/16] Dynamic hook interface binding Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 01/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Keep deleted flowtable hooks until after RCU Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 13:32   ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-12 13:48     ` Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 14:27       ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-16  0:00     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-09-16 21:42       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-09-17 21:14   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 02/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Flowtable hook's pf value never varies Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 03/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Store user-defined hook ifname Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:56   ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-12 13:26     ` Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 13:38       ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 04/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Use stored ifname in netdev hook dumps Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 05/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Compare netdev hooks based on stored name Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 06/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Tolerate chains with no remaining hooks Phil Sutter
2024-10-31 14:01   ` Florian Westphal
2024-10-31 14:19     ` Phil Sutter
2024-10-31 14:37       ` Florian Westphal
2024-10-31 15:16         ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 07/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce functions freeing nft_hook objects Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 08/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce nft_hook_find_ops() Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 09/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Introduce nft_register_flowtable_ops() Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 10/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Have a list of nf_hook_ops in nft_hook Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 11/16] netfilter: nf_tables: chain: Respect NETDEV_REGISTER events Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 14:40   ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-12 15:05     ` Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 15:12       ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-12 15:41         ` Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 16:06           ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-12 16:25             ` Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 20:43               ` Florian Westphal
2024-09-13 11:42                 ` Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 12/16] netfilter: nf_tables: flowtable: " Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 13/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Handle NETDEV_CHANGENAME events Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 14/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Support wildcard netdev hook specs Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 15/16] netfilter: nf_tables: Add notications for hook changes Phil Sutter
2024-09-12 12:21 ` [nf-next PATCH v3 16/16] selftests: netfilter: Torture nftables netdev hooks Phil Sutter

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