From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hauke@hauke-m.de
Subject: [PATCH nf,v2] net: update dev_fill_forward_path() to handle mac80211 special case
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:33:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914123334.1964397-1-pablo@netfilter.org> (raw)
Before commit b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit
path"), there was a fallback to create a bypass in case
.ndo_fill_forward_path fails.
Commit d787a3e38f01 ("mac80211: add support for .ndo_fill_forward_path")
relies on such fallback, so most mac80211 drivers used to work since
they do not provide a net_fill_forward_path interface.
Add a special case to dev_fill_forward_path() by returning 1 in case
.ndo_fill_forward_path is implemented but this is expected to be the
last device in the forward path stack.
Fixes: b5964aac51e0 ("netfilter: flowtable: consolidate xmit path")
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
v2: do not incremental stack->num_path, use the existing empty slot.
net/core/dev.c | 4 +++-
net/mac80211/iface.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ecfbd72d5d1a..53140edfd1b4 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -787,6 +787,8 @@ int dev_fill_forward_path(struct net_device_path_ctx *ctx,
ret = ctx->dev->netdev_ops->ndo_fill_forward_path(ctx, path);
if (ret < 0)
goto err_out;
+ else if (ret > 0)
+ goto out;
stack->num_paths++;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(last_dev == ctx->dev))
@@ -795,7 +797,7 @@ int dev_fill_forward_path(struct net_device_path_ctx *ctx,
if (!ctx->dev)
return ret;
-
+out:
path = dev_fwd_path(stack);
if (!path)
goto err_out;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 43460a705a6b..8c0cc2b4c6ed 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ static int ieee80211_netdev_fill_forward_path(struct net_device_path_ctx *ctx,
local = sdata->local;
if (!local->ops->net_fill_forward_path)
- return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ return 1;
rcu_read_lock();
switch (sdata->vif.type) {
--
2.47.3
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