Gathering interface statistics can be a relatively expensive operation on certain systems as it requires iterating over all the cpus. RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS was first introduced [1] to skip AF_INET6 statistics from interface dumps and it was then extended [2] to also exclude IFLA_VF_INFO. The semantics of the flag does not seem to be limited to AF_INET or VF statistics and having a way to query the interface status (e.g: carrier, address) without retrieving its statistics seems reasonable. So this patch extends the use RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS to also affect IFLA_STATS. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20150911204848.GC9687@oracle.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230611105108.122586-1-gal@nvidia.com/ Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 8040ff7c356e..88d52157ef1c 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2123,7 +2123,8 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, if (rtnl_phys_switch_id_fill(skb, dev)) goto nla_put_failure; - if (rtnl_fill_stats(skb, dev)) + if (~ext_filter_mask & RTEXT_FILTER_SKIP_STATS && + rtnl_fill_stats(skb, dev)) goto nla_put_failure; if (rtnl_fill_vf(skb, dev, ext_filter_mask)) -- 2.51.0