Add a possibility where the user can just specify the parent and all filters under that parent are then being purged. Currently, for example for scripting, one needs to specify pref/prio to have a well-defined number for 'tc filter del' command for addressing the previously created instance or additionally filter handle in case of priorities being the same. Improve usage by allowing the option for tc to specify the parent and removing the whole chain for that given parent.
Example usage after patch, no tc changes required: # tc qdisc replace dev foo clsact # tc filter add dev foo egress bpf da obj ./bpf.o # tc filter add dev foo egress bpf da obj ./bpf.o # tc filter show dev foo egress filter protocol all pref 49151 bpf filter protocol all pref 49151 bpf handle 0x1 bpf.o:[classifier] direct-action filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf filter protocol all pref 49152 bpf handle 0x1 bpf.o:[classifier] direct-action # tc filter del dev foo egress # tc filter show dev foo egress # Previously, RTM_DELTFILTER requests with invalid prio of 0 were rejected, so only netlink requests with RTM_NEWTFILTER and NLM_F_CREATE flag were allowed where the kernel would auto-generate a pref/prio. We can piggyback on that and use prio of 0 as a wildcard for requests of RTM_DELTFILTER. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> --- net/sched/cls_api.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c index a75864d..caa1dd4 100644 --- a/net/sched/cls_api.c +++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c @@ -156,11 +156,22 @@ replay: cl = 0; if (prio == 0) { - /* If no priority is given, user wants we allocated it. */ - if (n->nlmsg_type != RTM_NEWTFILTER || - !(n->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_CREATE)) + switch (n->nlmsg_type) { + case RTM_DELTFILTER: + if (protocol || t->tcm_handle) + return -ENOENT; + break; + case RTM_NEWTFILTER: + /* If no priority is provided by the user, + * we allocate one. + */ + if (n->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_CREATE) { + prio = TC_H_MAKE(0x80000000U, 0U); + break; + } + default: return -ENOENT; - prio = TC_H_MAKE(0x80000000U, 0U); + } } /* Find head of filter chain. */ @@ -200,6 +211,11 @@ replay: err = -EINVAL; if (chain == NULL) goto errout; + if (n->nlmsg_type == RTM_DELTFILTER && prio == 0) { + tcf_destroy_chain(chain); + err = 0; + goto errout; + } /* Check the chain for existence of proto-tcf with this priority */ for (back = chain; -- 1.9.3