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From: Minxi Hou <houminxi@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] netlink: specs: add ovs_flow del and set operations
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2026 09:05:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261006130533.1620706-2-houminxi@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006130533.1620706-1-houminxi@gmail.com>

The ovs_flow spec only described get and new, so a YNL client could
not delete or modify a flow. The kernel has had both commands since
the family was added: del flushes the data path when neither a key nor
a ufid is given, and set looks a flow up by key or ufid.

Name the attributes each command reads. del and set need CAP_NET_ADMIN.

Signed-off-by: Minxi Hou <houminxi@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml
index 951837b72e1d..87984bf1fac4 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/ovs_flow.yaml
@@ -988,6 +988,7 @@ operations:
       doc: Create OVS flow configuration in a data path
       value: 1
       attribute-set: flow-attrs
+      flags: [uns-admin-perm]
       do:
         request:
           attributes:
@@ -995,6 +996,36 @@ operations:
             - ufid
             - mask
             - actions
+    -
+      name: del
+      doc: Delete one flow, or every flow in the data path
+      value: 2
+      attribute-set: flow-attrs
+      flags: [uns-admin-perm]
+      do:
+        request:
+          attributes:
+            - key
+            - ufid
+            - ufid-flags
+    -
+      name: set
+      doc: |
+        Modify an existing flow. The kernel rejects the request with
+        -EINVAL when it carries neither a key nor a ufid.
+      value: 4
+      attribute-set: flow-attrs
+      flags: [uns-admin-perm]
+      do:
+        request:
+          attributes:
+            - key
+            - ufid
+            - mask
+            - actions
+            - ufid-flags
+            - clear
+            - probe
 
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-10-06 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-06 13:05 [PATCH net-next 0/2] netlink: specs: fill in the missing ovs operations Minxi Hou
2026-10-06 13:05 ` Minxi Hou [this message]
2026-10-08 13:08   ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] netlink: specs: add ovs_flow del and set operations netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09  3:25     ` Minxi Hou
2026-10-06 13:05 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] netlink: specs: add ovs datapath and vport " Minxi Hou
2026-10-08 13:08   ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-10-09  3:26     ` Minxi Hou

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