Subject: [PATCH net-next] netfilter: conntrack: using NF_DROP in test statement in nf_conntrack_in()

From: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 17:29:15 +0800

From: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>

At the beginning in 2009 one patch [1] introduced collecting drop
counter in nf_conntrack_in() by returning -NF_DROP. Later, another
patch [2] changed the return value of tcp_packet() which now is
renamed to nf_conntrack_tcp_packet() from -NF_DROP to NF_DROP.

Well, as NF_DROP is equal to 0, inverting NF_DROP makes no sense
as patch [2] did many years ago.

[1]
commit 7d1e04598e5e ("netfilter: nf_conntrack: account packets drop by tcp_packet()")
[2]
commit ec8d540969da ("netfilter: conntrack: fix dropping packet after l4proto->packet()")

Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <[email-masked]>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
index c63868666bd9..6102dc09cdd3 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
@@ -2024,7 +2024,7 @@ nf_conntrack_in(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nf_hook_state *state)
 			goto repeat;
 
 		NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC(state->net, invalid);
-		if (ret == -NF_DROP)
+		if (ret == NF_DROP)
 			NF_CT_STAT_INC_ATOMIC(state->net, drop);
 
 		ret = -ret;
-- 
2.37.3