[PATCH v6.1 1/3] netfilter: nf_tables: always increment set element count

From: Shivani Agarwal

Date: Fri Jun 19 2026 - 05:58:27 EST


From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit d4b7f29eb85c93893bc27388b37709efbc3c9a0e ]

At this time, set->nelems counter only increments when the set has
a maximum size.

All set elements decrement the counter unconditionally, this is
confusing.

Increment the counter unconditionally to make this symmetrical.
This would also allow changing the set maximum size after set creation
in a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Shivani: Modified to apply on 6.1.y ]
Signed-off-by: Shivani Agarwal <shivani.agarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
index 0c4224282..ec4bfe53b 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c
@@ -6670,10 +6670,13 @@ static int nft_add_set_elem(struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set,
goto err_element_clash;
}

- if (!(flags & NFT_SET_ELEM_CATCHALL) && set->size &&
- !atomic_add_unless(&set->nelems, 1, set->size + set->ndeact)) {
- err = -ENFILE;
- goto err_set_full;
+ if (!(flags & NFT_SET_ELEM_CATCHALL)) {
+ unsigned int max = set->size ? set->size + set->ndeact : UINT_MAX;
+
+ if (!atomic_add_unless(&set->nelems, 1, max)) {
+ err = -ENFILE;
+ goto err_set_full;
+ }
}

nft_trans_elem(trans) = elem;
--
2.53.0