On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >>>You can't claim you really delete it as long as actions can still >>>see it and dump it. >> >> No, user just wants to delete all the filters. That is done. User does >> not care if the actual chain structure is there or not. >> > > Hmm, so users see a chain with no filters... Fair enough.
But since you remove the chain from the chain_list, it means users could not add new filters to this chain after flushing? And users could create a new chain with the same index?? If so, you should instead keep it in the chain_list, although empty.
