Re: [PATCH] Periodically flow expire from flow offload tables

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 02:36:35PM +0200, Michael Lilja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> No problem. Here is a snippet of the rulesets in play. I simplified it because there are a lot of devices and a lot of schedules per device. The ‘mark’ is set by userspace so not all flow types are offloaded, that is controlled by userspace:
> 
> - - - - snip start - - - - 
> table inet fw4 {
> 	flowtable ft {
> 	hook ingress priority filter
> 	devices = { lan1, lan2, wan }
> 	flags offload
> }
> 
>  chain mangle_forward {
> 	type filter hook forward priority mangle; policy
> 	meta mark set ct mark
> 	meta mark 0x00000000/16 queue flags bypass to 0
>  }
> 
> 
> chain my_devices_rules {
> 	ether saddr 96:68:97:a7:e8:a7 jump fw_p0_dev0 comment “Device match”
> }
> 
> chain fw_p0_dev0 {
> 	meta time >= "2022-10-09 18:46:50" meta time < "2022-10-09 19:16:50" counter packets 0 bytes 0 drop comment "!Schedule OFFLINE override"
> 	meta day “Tuesday" meta hour >= "06:00" meta hour < "07:00" drop
> }
> 
> chain forward {
> 	 type filter hook forward priority filter; policy accept;
> 	jump my_devices_rules
> }
> 
> chain my_forward_offload {
> 	type filter hook forward priority filter + 1; policy accept;
> 	meta mark != 0x00000000/16 meta l4proto { tcp, udp } flow add @ft
> }
> 
> chain mangle_postrouting {
> 	type filter hook postrouting priority mangle; policy accept;
> 	ct mark set meta mark
> }
> - - - - snip end - - - -
> 
> The use case is that I have schedules per device to control when
> they are allowed access to the internet and if the flows are
> offloaded they will not get dropped once the schedule kicks in.

Thanks for explaining.

I suggest to move your 'forward' chain to netdev/ingress using priority

      filter - 1

so the time schedule evaluation is always done before the flowtable
lookup, that is, schedules rules will be always evaluated.

In your example, you are using a linear ruleset, which might defeat
the purpose of the flowtable. So I'm attaching a new ruleset
transformed to use maps and the ingress chain as suggested.

table netdev filter {
	map ether_to_chain {
		typeof ether saddr : verdict
		elements = { 96:68:97:a7:e8:a7 comment "Device match" : jump fw_p0_dev0 }
	}

	map schedule_time {
		typeof meta time : verdict
		flags interval
		counter
		elements = { "2022-10-09 18:46:50" - "2022-10-09 19:16:50" comment "!Schedule OFFLINE override" : drop }
	}

	map schedule_day {
		typeof meta day . meta hour : verdict
		flags interval
		counter
		elements = { "Tuesday" . "06:00" - "07:00" : drop }
	}

	chain fw_p0_dev0 {
		meta time vmap @schedule_time
		meta day . meta hour vmap @schedule_day
	}

	chain my_devices_rules {
		ether saddr vmap @ether_to_chain
	}

	chain ingress {
		type filter hook ingress device eth0 priority filter; policy accept;
		jump my_devices_rules
	}
}