[PATCH net v2 1/2] netlink: specs: fix the conntrack filter type

From: Ilya Maximets

Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 18:11:55 EST


The CTA_FILTER doesn't contain nested tuple attributes, instead it
contains bit masks that specify which tuple attributes to filter on.
The values for filtering are taken from the top-level CTA_TUPLE_ORIG
and CTA_TUPLE_REPLY, which are also missing in the attribute list
for the dump request.

The bits themselves somehow are not in the public headers, so not
defining them in the spec either for now. Once they are public in
uAPI, they can be added here with enum-as-flags.

Fixes: 23fc9311a526 ("netlink: specs: add conntrack dump and stats dump support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml | 15 ++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml
index db7cddcda50a..6ba28cb1c2ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/conntrack.yaml
@@ -360,6 +360,17 @@ attribute-sets:
name: tsoff
type: u32
byte-order: big-endian
+ -
+ name: filter-attrs
+ attributes:
+ -
+ name: orig-flags
+ type: u32
+ doc: bitmask of tuple fields to filter on, original direction
+ -
+ name: reply-flags
+ type: u32
+ doc: bitmask of tuple fields to filter on, reply direction
-
name: conntrack-attrs
attributes:
@@ -466,7 +477,7 @@ attribute-sets:
-
name: filter
type: nest
- nested-attributes: tuple-attrs
+ nested-attributes: filter-attrs
-
name: status-mask
type: u32
@@ -591,6 +602,8 @@ operations:
request:
value: 0x101
attributes:
+ - tuple-orig
+ - tuple-reply
- mark
- filter
- status
--
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