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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 2/2] net/sched: fix filter flushing
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 14:04:58 -0700
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>>>You can't claim you really delete it as long as actions can still
>>>see it and dump it.
>>
>> No, user just wants to delete all the filters. That is done. User does
>> not care if the actual chain structure is there or not.
>>
>
> Hmm, so users see a chain with no filters... Fair enough.

But since you remove the chain from the chain_list, it means
users could not add new filters to this chain after flushing? And
users could create a new chain with the same index??

If so, you should instead keep it in the chain_list, although empty.