netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: nft_counter: rework atomic dump and reset

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Date:   Sat, 10 Dec 2016 07:40:08 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: nft_counter: rework atomic dump and
 reset

On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 15:25 +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 03:16:55PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
=
>  
> -       nft_counter_fetch(priv, &total, reset);
> +       nft_counter_fetch(priv, &total);
> +       if (reset)
> +               nft_counter_reset(priv, &total);
>  
>         if (nla_put_be64(skb, NFTA_COUNTER_BYTES,
> cpu_to_be64(total.bytes),
>                          NFTA_COUNTER_PAD) ||

Night be nitpicking, but you might reset the stats only if the
nla_put_be64() succeeded.

But regardless of this detail, patch looks good and is very close to the
one I cooked and was about to send this morning.

Thanks Pablo !