netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] netfilter: nft_counter: Fix reset of counters on 32bit archs

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Message-ID: <20260203180937.25219489@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 18:09:37 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc: anders.grahn@...il.com, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>, Phil
 Sutter <phil@....cc>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
 coreteam@...filter.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] netfilter: nft_counter: Fix reset of counters on
 32bit archs

On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 14:54:58 +0100 Florian Westphal wrote:
> I will apply this in the next days unless there is a NACK from
> netdev maintainers.

My $0.02 is that it'd be great to add a comment advising against the
use of the new helper, because normally stats shouldn't go backwards.
But I guess is equally obvious as it is hard to explain succinctly.
So ack from me.