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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2026-07-10 09:54:09 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2026-07-24 11:22:30 +0200
commitedd51a23343870dbd7cedf6e2765c13cf7a5ccbc (patch)
treeec805fbde51351866e539d77590631185779cd3e
parent16aecbe3036f6097c26b51b12e4c1cf207769690 (diff)
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netfilter: flowtable: tear down flow entries with stale dst from GC
In case of route updates, tear down flow entries with stale dst to give them a chance to obtain a fresh route. This is specifically useful for hardware offloaded entries, where the flowtable software dataplane sees no packet, where the existing check for stale dst entries does not help. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
-rw-r--r--include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h8
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c2
-rw-r--r--net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c8
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
index ce414118962f..a090ec3ffef2 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
@@ -310,6 +310,14 @@ int flow_offload_add(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table, struct flow_offload *flow)
void flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
struct flow_offload *flow, bool force);
+static inline bool nf_flow_dst_check(struct flow_offload_tuple *tuple)
+{
+ if (!tuple->dst_cache)
+ return true;
+
+ return dst_check(tuple->dst_cache, tuple->dst_cookie);
+}
+
struct flow_offload_tuple_rhash *flow_offload_lookup(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
struct flow_offload_tuple *tuple);
void nf_flow_table_gc_run(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index b66e65439341..58e6a675332d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ static void nf_flow_offload_gc_step(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
if (nf_flow_has_expired(flow) ||
nf_ct_is_dying(flow->ct) ||
+ !nf_flow_dst_check(&flow->tuplehash[FLOW_OFFLOAD_DIR_ORIGINAL].tuple) ||
+ !nf_flow_dst_check(&flow->tuplehash[FLOW_OFFLOAD_DIR_REPLY].tuple) ||
nf_flow_custom_gc(flow_table, flow)) {
flow_offload_teardown(flow);
teardown = true;
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
index 0b78decce8a9..0b314b10e705 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_ip.c
@@ -297,14 +297,6 @@ static bool nf_flow_exceeds_mtu(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int mtu)
return true;
}
-static inline bool nf_flow_dst_check(struct flow_offload_tuple *tuple)
-{
- if (!tuple->dst_cache)
- return true;
-
- return dst_check(tuple->dst_cache, tuple->dst_cookie);
-}
-
static unsigned int nf_flow_xmit_xfrm(struct sk_buff *skb,
const struct nf_hook_state *state,
struct dst_entry *dst)