From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c9526aeb4998393171d85225ff540e28c7d4ab86 ] pipapo set backend maintains two copies of the datastructure, removing the elements from the copy that is going to be discarded slows down the abort path significantly, from several minutes to few seconds after this patch. This patch was previously reverted by f86fb94011ae ("netfilter: nf_tables: revert do not remove elements if set backend implements .abort") but it is now possible since recent work by Florian Westphal to perform on-demand clone from insert/remove path: 532aec7e878b ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: remove dirty flag") 3f1d886cc7c3 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: move cloning of match info to insert/removal path") a238106703ab ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prepare pipapo_get helper for on-demand clone") c5444786d0ea ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: merge deactivate helper into caller") 6c108d9bee44 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prepare walk function for on-demand clone") 8b8a2417558c ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prepare destroy function for on-demand clone") 80efd2997fb9 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: make pipapo_clone helper return NULL") a590f4760922 ("netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: move prove_locking helper around") after this series, the clone is fully released once aborted, no need to take it back to previous state. Thus, no stale reference to elements can occur. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index 0a2f793469589..ee428997a0731 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -10782,7 +10782,10 @@ static int __nf_tables_abort(struct net *net, enum nfnl_abort_action action) break; } te = nft_trans_container_elem(trans); - nft_setelem_remove(net, te->set, te->elem_priv); + if (!te->set->ops->abort || + nft_setelem_is_catchall(te->set, te->elem_priv)) + nft_setelem_remove(net, te->set, te->elem_priv); + if (!nft_setelem_is_catchall(te->set, te->elem_priv)) atomic_dec(&te->set->nelems); -- 2.43.0