netdev - Re: broken behaviour of TC filter delete

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Date:   Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:02:43 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: broken behaviour of TC filter delete

Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 08:11:07PM CEST, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:21 AM Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com> wrote:
>>
>> So _before_ commit f71e0ca4db187af7c44987e9d21e9042c3046070 step 6 would
>> return -ENOENT with "Error: Filter with specified priority/protocol not
>> found." and _after_ the commit it returns -EINVAL (Error: Cannot find
>> specified filter chain.)
>>
>> ENOENT seems to be more logical to return when there's no more filter to delete.
>
>Yeah, at least we should keep ENOENT for compatibility.
>
>The bug here is chain 0 is gone after the last filter is gone,
>so when you delete the filter again, it treats it as you specify
>chain 0 which does not exist, so it hits EINVAL before ENOENT.

I understand. My concern is about consistency with other chains. Perhaps
-ENOENT for all chains in this case would be doable. What do you think?

>
>I am not sure how to fix this properly.