This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: .deactivate fails if element has expired 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_rbtree-.deactivate-fails-if-element-has-expired.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 d111692a59c1470ae530cbb39bcf0346c950ecc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:28:27 +0200 Subject: netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: .deactivate fails if element has expired From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d111692a59c1470ae530cbb39bcf0346c950ecc7 upstream. This allows to remove an expired element which is not possible in other existing set backends, this is more noticeable if gc-interval is high so expired elements remain in the tree. On-demand gc also does not help in this case, because this is delete element path. Return NULL if element has expired. Fixes: 8d8540c4f5e0 ("netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: add timeout support") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c @@ -570,6 +570,8 @@ static void *nft_rbtree_deactivate(const nft_rbtree_interval_end(this)) { parent = parent->rb_right; continue; + } else if (nft_set_elem_expired(&rbe->ext)) { + break; } else if (!nft_set_elem_active(&rbe->ext, genmask)) { parent = parent->rb_left; continue; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/netfilter-nft_set_rbtree-.deactivate-fails-if-element-has-expired.patch