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[net,8/9] netfilter: flowtable: Make sure GC works periodically in idle system

Message ID 20210319010608.9758-9-pablo@netfilter.org
State New
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Series Netfilter fixes for net | expand

Commit Message

Pablo Neira Ayuso March 19, 2021, 1:06 a.m. UTC 
From: Yinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@corigine.com>

Currently flowtable's GC work is initialized as deferrable, which
means GC cannot work on time when system is idle. So the hardware
offloaded flow may be deleted for timeout, since its used time is
not timely updated.

Resolve it by initializing the GC work as delayed work instead of
deferrable.

Fixes: c29f74e0df7a ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: hardware offload support")
Signed-off-by: Yinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index 5fa657b8e03d..c77ba8690ed8 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@  int nf_flow_table_init(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable)
 {
 	int err;
 
-	INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK(&flowtable->gc_work, nf_flow_offload_work_gc);
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&flowtable->gc_work, nf_flow_offload_work_gc);
 	flow_block_init(&flowtable->flow_block);
 	init_rwsem(&flowtable->flow_block_lock);