Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] selftests: tc-testing: add act_ct test for malformed header handling

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM Victor Nogueira <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 06/08/2026 07:12, Hyunjung Ko wrote:
> > Add a tdc case covering the leak fixed by the previous patch.
> >
> > The test attaches "action ct" to a clsact ingress chain and injects ten
> > IPv6 frames whose nexthdr says hop-by-hop but which carry nothing after
> > the 40-byte header, so ipv6_find_hdr() fails and
> > tcf_ct_ipv6_is_fragment() returns -EPROTO.
> >
> > Before the fix act_ct returned TC_ACT_CONSUMED for these packets, so
> > tc_run() never reached its TC_ACT_SHOT arm and the clsact drop counter
> > stayed at zero while the skbs leaked. After the fix the packets are
> > dropped properly and the counter reflects them, which is what the test
> > matches on:
> >
> >    before:  Sent 476 bytes 11 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
> >    after:   Sent 400 bytes 10 pkt (dropped 10, overlimits 0 requeues 0)
> >
> > Assisted-by: Anthropic-Claude-Code:Claude-Opus-5
> > Signed-off-by: Hyunjung Ko <[email protected]>
>
> Reviewed-by: Victor Nogueira <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]>

cheers,
jamal