This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nft_set_hash: mark set element as dead when deleting from packet path to the 5.10-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-nft_set_hash-mark-set-element-as-dead-when-deleting-from-packet-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c92db3030492b8ad1d0faace7a93bbcf53850d0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 15:00:06 +0200 Subject: netfilter: nft_set_hash: mark set element as dead when deleting from packet path From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c92db3030492b8ad1d0faace7a93bbcf53850d0c upstream. Set on the NFT_SET_ELEM_DEAD_BIT flag on this element, instead of performing element removal which might race with an ongoing transaction. Enable gc when dynamic flag is set on since dynset deletion requires garbage collection after this patch. Fixes: d0a8d877da97 ("netfilter: nft_dynset: support for element deletion") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_hash.c @@ -251,7 +251,9 @@ static bool nft_rhash_delete(const struc if (he == NULL) return false; - return rhashtable_remove_fast(&priv->ht, &he->node, nft_rhash_params) == 0; + nft_set_elem_dead(&he->ext); + + return true; } static void nft_rhash_walk(const struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set, @@ -372,7 +374,7 @@ static int nft_rhash_init(const struct n return err; INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&priv->gc_work, nft_rhash_gc); - if (set->flags & NFT_SET_TIMEOUT) + if (set->flags & (NFT_SET_TIMEOUT | NFT_SET_EVAL)) nft_rhash_gc_init(set); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/netfilter-nft_set_hash-mark-set-element-as-dead-when-deleting-from-packet-path.patch queue-5.10/netfilter-nf_tables-don-t-skip-expired-elements-during-walk.patch