From 01726b9021cb8ffd7cfd7bd7d99fecff97264cd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Westphal Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:26:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: reset table validation state on abort [ Upstream commit 6f93616a7323d646d18db9c09f147e453b40fdd7 ] If a transaction fails the final validation in the commit hook, the table validation state is changed to NFT_VALIDATE_DO and a replay of the batch is performed. Every rule insert will then do a graph validation. This is much slower, but provides better error reporting to the user because we can point at the rule that introduces the validation issue. Without this reset the affected table(s) remain in full validation mode, i.e. on next transaction we start with slow-mode. This makes the next transaction after a failed incremental update very slow: # time iptables-restore < /tmp/ruleset real 0m0.496s [..] # time iptables -A CALLEE -j CALLER iptables v1.8.11 (nf_tables): RULE_APPEND failed (Too many links): rule in chain CALLEE real 0m0.022s [..] # time iptables-restore < /tmp/ruleset real 1m22.355s [..] After this patch, 2nd iptables-restore is back to ~0.5s. Fixes: 9a32e9850686 ("netfilter: nf_tables: don't write table validation state without mutex") Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 3bf88c137868..42105628d4b9 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -11071,6 +11071,13 @@ static int nf_tables_abort(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, ret = __nf_tables_abort(net, action); nft_gc_seq_end(nft_net, gc_seq); + if (action == NFNL_ABORT_NONE) { + struct nft_table *table; + + list_for_each_entry(table, &nft_net->tables, list) + table->validate_state = NFT_VALIDATE_SKIP; + } + WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&nft_net->commit_list)); /* module autoload needs to happen after GC sequence update because it