[PATCH 5.17 085/158] netfilter: flowtable: fix excessive hw offload attempts after failure

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-05-23T18:03:10Z

From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>

[ Upstream commit 396ef64113a8ba01c46315d67a99db8dde3eef51 ]

If a flow cannot be offloaded, the code currently repeatedly tries again as
quickly as possible, which can significantly increase system load.
Fix this by limiting flow timeout update and hardware offload retry to once
per second.

Fixes: c07531c01d82 ("netfilter: flowtable: Remove redundant hw refresh bit")
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index b90eca7a2f22..52e7f94d2450 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -329,8 +329,10 @@ void flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
u32 timeout;

timeout = nf_flowtable_time_stamp + flow_offload_get_timeout(flow);
- if (READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) != timeout)
+ if (timeout - READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) > HZ)
WRITE_ONCE(flow->timeout, timeout);
+ else
+ return;

if (likely(!nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table)))
return;
--
2.35.1