Patch "netfilter: flowtable: add function to invoke garbage collection immediately" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    netfilter: flowtable: add function to invoke garbage collection immediately

to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     netfilter-flowtable-add-function-to-invoke-garbage-c.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit 30079cb6733fce521dd4c54c8b73d9844782b5fd
Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Aug 22 23:13:00 2022 +0200

    netfilter: flowtable: add function to invoke garbage collection immediately
    
    [ Upstream commit 759eebbcfafcefa23b59e912396306543764bd3c ]
    
    Expose nf_flow_table_gc_run() to force a garbage collector run from the
    offload infrastructure.
    
    Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
index 9f927c44087de..f337041dcc352 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ void flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
 
 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);
 void nf_flow_table_gc_cleanup(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
 			      struct net_device *dev);
 void nf_flow_table_cleanup(struct net_device *dev);
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index 9fb407084c506..95ff1284d3d89 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -436,12 +436,17 @@ static void nf_flow_offload_gc_step(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
 	}
 }
 
+void nf_flow_table_gc_run(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table)
+{
+	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+}
+
 static void nf_flow_offload_work_gc(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct nf_flowtable *flow_table;
 
 	flow_table = container_of(work, struct nf_flowtable, gc_work.work);
-	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+	nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
 	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &flow_table->gc_work, HZ);
 }
 
@@ -600,10 +605,11 @@ void nf_flow_table_free(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table)
 
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&flow_table->gc_work);
 	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_table_do_cleanup, NULL);
-	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+	nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
 	nf_flow_table_offload_flush(flow_table);
 	if (nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table))
-		nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+		nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
+
 	rhashtable_destroy(&flow_table->rhashtable);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_table_free);