cache: do not populate the cache in case of flush ruleset command

__CMD_FLUSH_RULESET is a dummy definition that used to skip the netlink
dump to populate the cache. This patch is a workaround until we have a
better infrastructure to track the state of the cache objects.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/rule.c b/src/rule.c
index 8de5aa62..0c0fd07e 100644
--- a/src/rule.c
+++ b/src/rule.c
@@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ static int cache_init(struct netlink_ctx *ctx, enum cmd_ops cmd)
 	};
 	int ret;
 
+	if (cmd == __CMD_FLUSH_RULESET)
+		return 0;
+
 	ret = cache_init_tables(ctx, &handle, &ctx->nft->cache);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;