Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net/sched: act_ct: Fix flow table lookup failure with no originating ifindex

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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.



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