diff --git a/Tethering/apishim/31/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/api31/BpfCoordinatorShimImpl.java b/Tethering/apishim/31/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/api31/BpfCoordinatorShimImpl.java
index 4d1e7ef482..e6e99f4c2c 100644
--- a/Tethering/apishim/31/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/api31/BpfCoordinatorShimImpl.java
+++ b/Tethering/apishim/31/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/api31/BpfCoordinatorShimImpl.java
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ public class BpfCoordinatorShimImpl
         } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
             // Silent if the rule already exists. Note that the errno EEXIST was rethrown as
             // IllegalStateException. See BpfMap#insertEntry.
+            return false;
         }
         return true;
     }
diff --git a/Tethering/apishim/common/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/common/BpfCoordinatorShim.java b/Tethering/apishim/common/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/common/BpfCoordinatorShim.java
index d28a397cb4..026b1c39d0 100644
--- a/Tethering/apishim/common/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/common/BpfCoordinatorShim.java
+++ b/Tethering/apishim/common/com/android/networkstack/tethering/apishim/common/BpfCoordinatorShim.java
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ public abstract class BpfCoordinatorShim {
 
     /**
      * Adds a tethering IPv4 offload rule to appropriate BPF map.
+     *
+     * @return true iff the map was modified, false if the key already exists or there was an error.
      */
     public abstract boolean tetherOffloadRuleAdd(boolean downstream, @NonNull Tether4Key key,
             @NonNull Tether4Value value);