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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Blakey <paulb@nvidia.com>,
	dev@openvswitch.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
	Oz Shlomo <ozsh@nvidia.com>, Vlad Buslov <vladbu@nvidia.com>,
	Roi Dayan <roid@nvidia.com>, Ariel Levkovich <lariel@nvidia.com>,
	coreteam@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net/sched: act_ct: Fix flow table lookup failure with no originating ifindex
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:55:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yg7gWIrIlGDDiVer@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220217232708.yhigtv2ssrlfsexs@t14s.localdomain>

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 08:27:08PM -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 02:55:27PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Paul Blakey wrote:
> > > After cited commit optimizted hw insertion, flow table entries are
> > > populated with ifindex information which was intended to only be used
> > > for HW offload. This tuple ifindex is hashed in the flow table key, so
> > > it must be filled for lookup to be successful. But tuple ifindex is only
> > > relevant for the netfilter flowtables (nft), so it's not filled in
> > > act_ct flow table lookup, resulting in lookup failure, and no SW
> > > offload and no offload teardown for TCP connection FIN/RST packets.
> > > 
> > > To fix this, allow flow tables that don't hash the ifindex.
> > > Netfilter flow tables will keep using ifindex for a more specific
> > > offload, while act_ct will not.
> > 
> > Using iif == zero should be enough to specify not set?
> 
> You mean, when searching, if search input iif == zero, to simply not
> check it? That seems dangerous somehow.

dev_new_index() does not allocate ifindex as zero.

Anyway, @Paul: could you add a tc_ifidx field instead in the union
right after __hash instead to fix 9795ded7f924?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-17 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-17  9:34 [PATCH net 1/1] net/sched: act_ct: Fix flow table lookup failure with no originating ifindex Paul Blakey
2022-02-17 13:55 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-02-17 23:27   ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2022-02-17 23:55     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2022-02-18  0:05       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-02-20  8:48         ` Paul Blakey
2022-02-17 16:55 ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-02-17 23:16 ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner

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