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<title>treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()</title>
<updated>2022-12-25T21:38:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T18:45:19+00:00</published>
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Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
called "shutdown".  After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
longer be re-armed.

The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
object holding the timer is freed.  It also ignores any locations where
the timer-&gt;function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(),
as that is not considered a "trivial" case.

This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:

    $ cat timer.cocci
    @@
    expression ptr, slab;
    identifier timer, rfield;
    @@
    (
    -       del_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    |
    -       del_timer_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    )
      ... when strict
          when != ptr-&gt;timer
    (
            kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
    |
            kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
    |
            kfree(ptr);
    )

    $ spatch timer.cocci . &gt; /tmp/t.patch
    $ patch -p1 &lt; /tmp/t.patch

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt; [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt; [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt; [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
called "shutdown".  After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
longer be re-armed.

The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
object holding the timer is freed.  It also ignores any locations where
the timer-&gt;function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(),
as that is not considered a "trivial" case.

This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:

    $ cat timer.cocci
    @@
    expression ptr, slab;
    identifier timer, rfield;
    @@
    (
    -       del_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    |
    -       del_timer_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    )
      ... when strict
          when != ptr-&gt;timer
    (
            kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
    |
            kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
    |
            kfree(ptr);
    )

    $ spatch timer.cocci . &gt; /tmp/t.patch
    $ patch -p1 &lt; /tmp/t.patch

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt; [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt; [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt; [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T03:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T03:32:52+00:00</published>
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter/IPVS fixes for net

1) Fix NAT IPv6 flowtable hardware offload, from Qingfang DENG.

2) Add a safety check to IPVS socket option interface report a
   warning if unsupported command is seen, this. From Li Qiong.

3) Document SCTP conntrack timeouts, from Sriram Yagnaraman.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf:
  netfilter: conntrack: document sctp timeouts
  ipvs: add a 'default' case in do_ip_vs_set_ctl()
  netfilter: flowtable: really fix NAT IPv6 offload
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213140923.154594-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter/IPVS fixes for net

1) Fix NAT IPv6 flowtable hardware offload, from Qingfang DENG.

2) Add a safety check to IPVS socket option interface report a
   warning if unsupported command is seen, this. From Li Qiong.

3) Document SCTP conntrack timeouts, from Sriram Yagnaraman.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf:
  netfilter: conntrack: document sctp timeouts
  ipvs: add a 'default' case in do_ip_vs_set_ctl()
  netfilter: flowtable: really fix NAT IPv6 offload
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213140923.154594-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T23:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T23:47:48+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Allow live renaming when an interface is up

   - Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
     performances of complex queue discipline configurations

   - Add inet drop monitor support

   - A few GRO performance improvements

   - Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
     data races

   - De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
     infrastructure

   - A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements

   - Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets

   - Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up the
     workload with the number of available CPUs

   - Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload

  BPF:

   - Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
     own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
     blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
     lists in BPF

   - Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
     programs

   - Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
     storage helpers

   - A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements

   - Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
     and replay of results

   - Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code

   - Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps

   - Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs

   - Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion of
     access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs

   - Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps

   - Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
     values

   - Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions

  Protocols:

   - TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links

   - TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting back
     to fast[er]-path

   - UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table

   - IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal

   - Netlink: support different type policies for each generic netlink
     operation

   - MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support

   - MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets events

   - SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF devices

   - Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support

   - Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
     support multicast scenarios

   - More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all the
     existing drivers to internal TX queue usage

   - IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
     complete header processing and crypto offloading

   - IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
     reporting

   - RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
     per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
     required locking

   - IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering support,
     initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks

   - Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps

   - Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support

  Driver API:

   - PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard level 1 and
     the higher power levels

   - New API for netdev &lt;-&gt; devlink_port linkage

   - PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
     implementation

   - DSA: add support for rx offloading

   - Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol

   - Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging

   - Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed

   - Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
     migratable

   - Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
     queuing

   - Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory

   - New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem

   - New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches
      - Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch
      - WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC
      - Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet
      - Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
      - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
      - Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter

   - PHY:
      - Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412
      - Motorcomm YT8531S

   - PTP:
      - Orolia ART-CARD

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices
      - RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
        devices

   - Bluetooth:
      - Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets
      - Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS
      - Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device

  Drivers:

   - CAN:
      - gs_usb: bus error reporting support
      - kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (100G):
         - extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping
         - implement devlink-rate support
         - support direct read from memory
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate
         - Support for enhanced events compression
         - extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities
         - implement IPSec packet offload mode
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
         - better big TCP support
      - Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
         - IPsec offload support
         - add support for multicast filter
      - Broadcom:
         - RSS and PTP support improvements
      - AMD/SolarFlare:
         - netlink extened ack improvements
         - add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats
      - Virtual NICs:
         - ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support
      - small / embedded:
         - FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support
         - Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood
         - TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support
         - Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support
         - Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
           default

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP
      - Mellanox mlxsw:
         - add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support
         - add ip6gre support

   - Embedded Ethernet switches:
      - Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
         - improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support
         - enable flow offload support
      - Renesas:
         - add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support
      - Microchip (lan966x):
         - add full XDP support
         - add TC H/W offload via VCAP
         - enable PTP on bridge interfaces
      - Microchip (ksz8):
         - add MTU support for KSZ8 series

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - support configuring channel dwell time during scan

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support
      - add ack signal support
      - enable coredump support
      - remain_on_channel support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities
      - 320 MHz channels support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - new dynamic header firmware format support
      - wake-over-WLAN support"

* tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2002 commits)
  ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit
  net: lan966x: Remove a useless test in lan966x_ptp_add_trap()
  net: ipa: add IPA v4.7 support
  dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: Add SM6350 compatible
  bnxt: Use generic HBH removal helper in tx path
  IPv6/GRO: generic helper to remove temporary HBH/jumbo header in driver
  selftests: forwarding: Add bridge MDB test
  selftests: forwarding: Rename bridge_mdb test
  bridge: mcast: Support replacement of MDB port group entries
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to specify MDB entry routing protocol
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to add (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Add support for (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Avoid arming group timer when (S, G) corresponds to a source
  bridge: mcast: Add a flag for user installed source entries
  bridge: mcast: Expose __br_multicast_del_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Expose br_multicast_new_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Add a centralized error path
  bridge: mcast: Place netlink policy before validation functions
  bridge: mcast: Split (*, G) and (S, G) addition into different functions
  bridge: mcast: Do not derive entry type from its filter mode
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core:

   - Allow live renaming when an interface is up

   - Add retpoline wrappers for tc, improving considerably the
     performances of complex queue discipline configurations

   - Add inet drop monitor support

   - A few GRO performance improvements

   - Add infrastructure for atomic dev stats, addressing long standing
     data races

   - De-duplicate common code between OVS and conntrack offloading
     infrastructure

   - A bunch of UBSAN_BOUNDS/FORTIFY_SOURCE improvements

   - Netfilter: introduce packet parser for tunneled packets

   - Replace IPVS timer-based estimators with kthreads to scale up the
     workload with the number of available CPUs

   - Add the helper support for connection-tracking OVS offload

  BPF:

   - Support for user defined BPF objects: the use case is to allocate
     own objects, build own object hierarchies and use the building
     blocks to build own data structures flexibly, for example, linked
     lists in BPF

   - Make cgroup local storage available to non-cgroup attached BPF
     programs

   - Avoid unnecessary deadlock detection and failures wrt BPF task
     storage helpers

   - A relevant bunch of BPF verifier fixes and improvements

   - Veristat tool improvements to support custom filtering, sorting,
     and replay of results

   - Add LLVM disassembler as default library for dumping JITed code

   - Lots of new BPF documentation for various BPF maps

   - Add bpf_rcu_read_{,un}lock() support for sleepable programs

   - Add RCU grace period chaining to BPF to wait for the completion of
     access from both sleepable and non-sleepable BPF programs

   - Add support storing struct task_struct objects as kptrs in maps

   - Improve helper UAPI by explicitly defining BPF_FUNC_xxx integer
     values

   - Add libbpf *_opts API-variants for bpf_*_get_fd_by_id() functions

  Protocols:

   - TCP: implement Protective Load Balancing across switch links

   - TCP: allow dynamically disabling TCP-MD5 static key, reverting back
     to fast[er]-path

   - UDP: Introduce optional per-netns hash lookup table

   - IPv6: simplify and cleanup sockets disposal

   - Netlink: support different type policies for each generic netlink
     operation

   - MPTCP: add MSG_FASTOPEN and FastOpen listener side support

   - MPTCP: add netlink notification support for listener sockets events

   - SCTP: add VRF support, allowing sctp sockets binding to VRF devices

   - Add bridging MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support

   - Extensions for Ethernet VPN bridging implementation to better
     support multicast scenarios

   - More work for Wi-Fi 7 support, comprising conversion of all the
     existing drivers to internal TX queue usage

   - IPSec: introduce a new offload type (packet offload) allowing
     complete header processing and crypto offloading

   - IPSec: extended ack support for more descriptive XFRM error
     reporting

   - RXRPC: increase SACK table size and move processing into a
     per-local endpoint kernel thread, reducing considerably the
     required locking

   - IEEE 802154: synchronous send frame and extended filtering support,
     initial support for scanning available 15.4 networks

   - Tun: bump the link speed from 10Mbps to 10Gbps

   - Tun/VirtioNet: implement UDP segmentation offload support

  Driver API:

   - PHY/SFP: improve power level switching between standard level 1 and
     the higher power levels

   - New API for netdev &lt;-&gt; devlink_port linkage

   - PTP: convert existing drivers to new frequency adjustment
     implementation

   - DSA: add support for rx offloading

   - Autoload DSA tagging driver when dynamically changing protocol

   - Add new PCP and APPTRUST attributes to Data Center Bridging

   - Add configuration support for 800Gbps link speed

   - Add devlink port function attribute to enable/disable RoCE and
     migratable

   - Extend devlink-rate to support strict prioriry and weighted fair
     queuing

   - Add devlink support to directly reading from region memory

   - New device tree helper to fetch MAC address from nvmem

   - New big TCP helper to simplify temporary header stripping

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Marvel Octeon CNF95N and CN10KB Ethernet Switches
      - Marvel Prestera AC5X Ethernet Switch
      - WangXun 10 Gigabit NIC
      - Motorcomm yt8521 Gigabit Ethernet
      - Microchip ksz9563 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
      - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter
      - Linux Automation 10Base-T1L adapter

   - PHY:
      - Aquantia AQR112 and AQR412
      - Motorcomm YT8531S

   - PTP:
      - Orolia ART-CARD

   - WiFi:
      - MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices
      - RealTek rtw8821cu, rtw8822bu, rtw8822cu and rtw8723du USB
        devices

   - Bluetooth:
      - Broadcom BCM4377/4378/4387 Bluetooth chipsets
      - Realtek RTL8852BE and RTL8723DS
      - Cypress.CYW4373A0 WiFi + Bluetooth combo device

  Drivers:

   - CAN:
      - gs_usb: bus error reporting support
      - kvaser_usb: listen only and bus error reporting support

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (100G):
         - extend action skbedit to RX queue mapping
         - implement devlink-rate support
         - support direct read from memory
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - SW steering improvements, increasing rules update rate
         - Support for enhanced events compression
         - extend H/W offload packet manipulation capabilities
         - implement IPSec packet offload mode
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx4):
         - better big TCP support
      - Netronome Ethernet NICs (nfp):
         - IPsec offload support
         - add support for multicast filter
      - Broadcom:
         - RSS and PTP support improvements
      - AMD/SolarFlare:
         - netlink extened ack improvements
         - add basic flower matches to offload, and related stats
      - Virtual NICs:
         - ibmvnic: introduce affinity hint support
      - small / embedded:
         - FreeScale fec: add initial XDP support
         - Marvel mv643xx_eth: support MII/GMII/RGMII modes for Kirkwood
         - TI am65-cpsw: add suspend/resume support
         - Mediatek MT7986: add RX wireless wthernet dispatch support
         - Realtek 8169: enable GRO software interrupt coalescing per
           default

   - Ethernet high-speed switches:
      - Microchip (sparx5):
         - add support for Sparx5 TC/flower H/W offload via VCAP
      - Mellanox mlxsw:
         - add 802.1X and MAC Authentication Bypass offload support
         - add ip6gre support

   - Embedded Ethernet switches:
      - Mediatek (mtk_eth_soc):
         - improve PCS implementation, add DSA untag support
         - enable flow offload support
      - Renesas:
         - add rswitch R-Car Gen4 gPTP support
      - Microchip (lan966x):
         - add full XDP support
         - add TC H/W offload via VCAP
         - enable PTP on bridge interfaces
      - Microchip (ksz8):
         - add MTU support for KSZ8 series

   - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k):
      - support configuring channel dwell time during scan

   - MediaTek WiFi (mt76):
      - enable Wireless Ethernet Dispatch (WED) offload support
      - add ack signal support
      - enable coredump support
      - remain_on_channel support

   - Intel WiFi (iwlwifi):
      - enable Wi-Fi 7 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PHY capabilities
      - 320 MHz channels support

   - RealTek WiFi (rtw89):
      - new dynamic header firmware format support
      - wake-over-WLAN support"

* tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2002 commits)
  ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit
  net: lan966x: Remove a useless test in lan966x_ptp_add_trap()
  net: ipa: add IPA v4.7 support
  dt-bindings: net: qcom,ipa: Add SM6350 compatible
  bnxt: Use generic HBH removal helper in tx path
  IPv6/GRO: generic helper to remove temporary HBH/jumbo header in driver
  selftests: forwarding: Add bridge MDB test
  selftests: forwarding: Rename bridge_mdb test
  bridge: mcast: Support replacement of MDB port group entries
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to specify MDB entry routing protocol
  bridge: mcast: Allow user space to add (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Add support for (*, G) with a source list and filter mode
  bridge: mcast: Avoid arming group timer when (S, G) corresponds to a source
  bridge: mcast: Add a flag for user installed source entries
  bridge: mcast: Expose __br_multicast_del_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Expose br_multicast_new_group_src()
  bridge: mcast: Add a centralized error path
  bridge: mcast: Place netlink policy before validation functions
  bridge: mcast: Split (*, G) and (S, G) addition into different functions
  bridge: mcast: Do not derive entry type from its filter mode
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ipvs: add a 'default' case in do_ip_vs_set_ctl()</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T11:23:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Qiong</name>
<email>liqiong@nfschina.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T07:43:51+00:00</published>
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It is better to return the default switch case with
'-EINVAL', in case new commands are added. otherwise,
return a uninitialized value of ret.

Signed-off-by: Li Qiong &lt;liqiong@nfschina.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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It is better to return the default switch case with
'-EINVAL', in case new commands are added. otherwise,
return a uninitialized value of ret.

Signed-off-by: Li Qiong &lt;liqiong@nfschina.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@verge.net.au&gt;
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipvs: fix type warning in do_div() on 32 bit</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T09:44:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T03:20:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7c4a6309e27f411743817fe74a832ec2d2798a4b'/>
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32 bit platforms without 64bit div generate the following warning:

net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c: In function 'ip_vs_est_calc_limits':
include/asm-generic/div64.h:222:35: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
  222 |         (void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0));  \
      |                                   ^~
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:694:17: note: in expansion of macro 'do_div'
  694 |                 do_div(val, loops);
      |                 ^~~~~~
include/asm-generic/div64.h:222:35: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
  222 |         (void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0));  \
      |                                   ^~
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:700:33: note: in expansion of macro 'do_div'
  700 |                                 do_div(val, min_est);
      |                                 ^~~~~~

first argument of do_div() should be unsigned. We can't just cast
as do_div() updates it as well, so we need an lval.
Make val unsigned in the first place, all paths check that the value
they assign to this variables are non-negative already.

Fixes: 705dd3444081 ("ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimation")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213032037.844517-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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32 bit platforms without 64bit div generate the following warning:

net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c: In function 'ip_vs_est_calc_limits':
include/asm-generic/div64.h:222:35: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
  222 |         (void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0));  \
      |                                   ^~
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:694:17: note: in expansion of macro 'do_div'
  694 |                 do_div(val, loops);
      |                 ^~~~~~
include/asm-generic/div64.h:222:35: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
  222 |         (void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0));  \
      |                                   ^~
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c:700:33: note: in expansion of macro 'do_div'
  700 |                                 do_div(val, min_est);
      |                                 ^~~~~~

first argument of do_div() should be unsigned. We can't just cast
as do_div() updates it as well, so we need an lval.
Make val unsigned in the first place, all paths check that the value
they assign to this variables are non-negative already.

Fixes: 705dd3444081 ("ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimation")
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221213032037.844517-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T02:29:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T02:29:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=75f4d9af8b67d7415afe50afcb4e96fd0bbd3ae2'/>
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Pull iov_iter updates from Al Viro:
 "iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of direction
  misannotations and (hopefully) preventing more of the same for the
  future"

* tag 'pull-iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers
  iov_iter: saner checks for attempt to copy to/from iterator
  [xen] fix "direction" argument of iov_iter_kvec()
  [vhost] fix 'direction' argument of iov_iter_{init,bvec}()
  [target] fix iov_iter_bvec() "direction" argument
  [s390] memcpy_real(): WRITE is "data source", not destination...
  [s390] zcore: WRITE is "data source", not destination...
  [infiniband] READ is "data destination", not source...
  [fsi] WRITE is "data source", not destination...
  [s390] copy_oldmem_kernel() - WRITE is "data source", not destination
  csum_and_copy_to_iter(): handle ITER_DISCARD
  get rid of unlikely() on page_copy_sane() calls
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Pull iov_iter updates from Al Viro:
 "iov_iter work; most of that is about getting rid of direction
  misannotations and (hopefully) preventing more of the same for the
  future"

* tag 'pull-iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers
  iov_iter: saner checks for attempt to copy to/from iterator
  [xen] fix "direction" argument of iov_iter_kvec()
  [vhost] fix 'direction' argument of iov_iter_{init,bvec}()
  [target] fix iov_iter_bvec() "direction" argument
  [s390] memcpy_real(): WRITE is "data source", not destination...
  [s390] zcore: WRITE is "data source", not destination...
  [infiniband] READ is "data destination", not source...
  [fsi] WRITE is "data source", not destination...
  [s390] copy_oldmem_kernel() - WRITE is "data source", not destination
  csum_and_copy_to_iter(): handle ITER_DISCARD
  get rid of unlikely() on page_copy_sane() calls
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T00:22:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T00:22:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=268325bda5299836a6ad4c3952474a2be125da5f'/>
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Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:

 - Replace prandom_u32_max() and various open-coded variants of it,
   there is now a new family of functions that uses fast rejection
   sampling to choose properly uniformly random numbers within an
   interval:

       get_random_u32_below(ceil) - [0, ceil)
       get_random_u32_above(floor) - (floor, U32_MAX]
       get_random_u32_inclusive(floor, ceil) - [floor, ceil]

   Coccinelle was used to convert all current users of
   prandom_u32_max(), as well as many open-coded patterns, resulting in
   improvements throughout the tree.

   I'll have a "late" 6.1-rc1 pull for you that removes the now unused
   prandom_u32_max() function, just in case any other trees add a new
   use case of it that needs to converted. According to linux-next,
   there may be two trivial cases of prandom_u32_max() reintroductions
   that are fixable with a 's/.../.../'. So I'll have for you a final
   conversion patch doing that alongside the removal patch during the
   second week.

   This is a treewide change that touches many files throughout.

 - More consistent use of get_random_canary().

 - Updates to comments, documentation, tests, headers, and
   simplification in configuration.

 - The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction was only used by arm64 and
   wasn't entirely useful, so this has been replaced by code that works
   in all relevant contexts.

 - The kernel will use and manage random seeds in non-volatile EFI
   variables, refreshing a variable with a fresh seed when the RNG is
   initialized. The RNG GUID namespace is then hidden from efivarfs to
   prevent accidental leakage.

   These changes are split into random.c infrastructure code used in the
   EFI subsystem, in this pull request, and related support inside of
   EFISTUB, in Ard's EFI tree. These are co-dependent for full
   functionality, but the order of merging doesn't matter.

 - Part of the infrastructure added for the EFI support is also used for
   an improvement to the way vsprintf initializes its siphash key,
   replacing an sleep loop wart.

 - The hardware RNG framework now always calls its correct random.c
   input function, add_hwgenerator_randomness(), rather than sometimes
   going through helpers better suited for other cases.

 - The add_latent_entropy() function has long been called from the fork
   handler, but is a no-op when the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't
   used, which is fine for the purposes of latent entropy.

   But it was missing out on the cycle counter that was also being mixed
   in beside the latent entropy variable. So now, if the latent entropy
   gcc plugin isn't enabled, add_latent_entropy() will expand to a call
   to add_device_randomness(NULL, 0), which adds a cycle counter,
   without the absent latent entropy variable.

 - The RNG is now reseeded from a delayed worker, rather than on demand
   when used. Always running from a worker allows it to make use of the
   CPU RNG on platforms like S390x, whose instructions are too slow to
   do so from interrupts. It also has the effect of adding in new inputs
   more frequently with more regularity, amounting to a long term
   transcript of random values. Plus, it helps a bit with the upcoming
   vDSO implementation (which isn't yet ready for 6.2).

 - The jitter entropy algorithm now tries to execute on many different
   CPUs, round-robining, in hopes of hitting even more memory latencies
   and other unpredictable effects. It also will mix in a cycle counter
   when the entropy timer fires, in addition to being mixed in from the
   main loop, to account more explicitly for fluctuations in that timer
   firing. And the state it touches is now kept within the same cache
   line, so that it's assured that the different execution contexts will
   cause latencies.

* tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (23 commits)
  random: include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in the right header
  random: align entropy_timer_state to cache line
  random: mix in cycle counter when jitter timer fires
  random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs
  random: remove extraneous period and add a missing one in comments
  efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized
  vsprintf: initialize siphash key using notifier
  random: add back async readiness notifier
  random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand
  random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()
  hw_random: use add_hwgenerator_randomness() for early entropy
  random: modernize documentation comment on get_random_bytes()
  random: adjust comment to account for removed function
  random: remove early archrandom abstraction
  random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only
  stackprotector: actually use get_random_canary()
  stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h
  treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32_{above,below}() instead of manual loop
  treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  ...
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Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:

 - Replace prandom_u32_max() and various open-coded variants of it,
   there is now a new family of functions that uses fast rejection
   sampling to choose properly uniformly random numbers within an
   interval:

       get_random_u32_below(ceil) - [0, ceil)
       get_random_u32_above(floor) - (floor, U32_MAX]
       get_random_u32_inclusive(floor, ceil) - [floor, ceil]

   Coccinelle was used to convert all current users of
   prandom_u32_max(), as well as many open-coded patterns, resulting in
   improvements throughout the tree.

   I'll have a "late" 6.1-rc1 pull for you that removes the now unused
   prandom_u32_max() function, just in case any other trees add a new
   use case of it that needs to converted. According to linux-next,
   there may be two trivial cases of prandom_u32_max() reintroductions
   that are fixable with a 's/.../.../'. So I'll have for you a final
   conversion patch doing that alongside the removal patch during the
   second week.

   This is a treewide change that touches many files throughout.

 - More consistent use of get_random_canary().

 - Updates to comments, documentation, tests, headers, and
   simplification in configuration.

 - The arch_get_random*_early() abstraction was only used by arm64 and
   wasn't entirely useful, so this has been replaced by code that works
   in all relevant contexts.

 - The kernel will use and manage random seeds in non-volatile EFI
   variables, refreshing a variable with a fresh seed when the RNG is
   initialized. The RNG GUID namespace is then hidden from efivarfs to
   prevent accidental leakage.

   These changes are split into random.c infrastructure code used in the
   EFI subsystem, in this pull request, and related support inside of
   EFISTUB, in Ard's EFI tree. These are co-dependent for full
   functionality, but the order of merging doesn't matter.

 - Part of the infrastructure added for the EFI support is also used for
   an improvement to the way vsprintf initializes its siphash key,
   replacing an sleep loop wart.

 - The hardware RNG framework now always calls its correct random.c
   input function, add_hwgenerator_randomness(), rather than sometimes
   going through helpers better suited for other cases.

 - The add_latent_entropy() function has long been called from the fork
   handler, but is a no-op when the latent entropy gcc plugin isn't
   used, which is fine for the purposes of latent entropy.

   But it was missing out on the cycle counter that was also being mixed
   in beside the latent entropy variable. So now, if the latent entropy
   gcc plugin isn't enabled, add_latent_entropy() will expand to a call
   to add_device_randomness(NULL, 0), which adds a cycle counter,
   without the absent latent entropy variable.

 - The RNG is now reseeded from a delayed worker, rather than on demand
   when used. Always running from a worker allows it to make use of the
   CPU RNG on platforms like S390x, whose instructions are too slow to
   do so from interrupts. It also has the effect of adding in new inputs
   more frequently with more regularity, amounting to a long term
   transcript of random values. Plus, it helps a bit with the upcoming
   vDSO implementation (which isn't yet ready for 6.2).

 - The jitter entropy algorithm now tries to execute on many different
   CPUs, round-robining, in hopes of hitting even more memory latencies
   and other unpredictable effects. It also will mix in a cycle counter
   when the entropy timer fires, in addition to being mixed in from the
   main loop, to account more explicitly for fluctuations in that timer
   firing. And the state it touches is now kept within the same cache
   line, so that it's assured that the different execution contexts will
   cause latencies.

* tag 'random-6.2-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random: (23 commits)
  random: include &lt;linux/once.h&gt; in the right header
  random: align entropy_timer_state to cache line
  random: mix in cycle counter when jitter timer fires
  random: spread out jitter callback to different CPUs
  random: remove extraneous period and add a missing one in comments
  efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized
  vsprintf: initialize siphash key using notifier
  random: add back async readiness notifier
  random: reseed in delayed work rather than on-demand
  random: always mix cycle counter in add_latent_entropy()
  hw_random: use add_hwgenerator_randomness() for early entropy
  random: modernize documentation comment on get_random_bytes()
  random: adjust comment to account for removed function
  random: remove early archrandom abstraction
  random: use random.trust_{bootloader,cpu} command line option only
  stackprotector: actually use get_random_canary()
  stackprotector: move get_random_canary() into stackprotector.h
  treewide: use get_random_u32_inclusive() when possible
  treewide: use get_random_u32_{above,below}() instead of manual loop
  treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T22:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T22:45:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=95d1815f0970d2f8e980a9a53dd0bf215de4d90a'/>
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next

1) Incorrect error check in nft_expr_inner_parse(), from Dan Carpenter.

2) Add DATA_SENT state to SCTP connection tracking helper, from
   Sriram Yagnaraman.

3) Consolidate nf_confirm for ipv4 and ipv6, from Florian Westphal.

4) Add bitmask support for ipset, from Vishwanath Pai.

5) Handle icmpv6 redirects as RELATED, from Florian Westphal.

6) Add WARN_ON_ONCE() to impossible case in flowtable datapath,
   from Li Qiong.

7) A large batch of IPVS updates to replace timer-based estimators by
   kthreads to scale up wrt. CPUs and workload (millions of estimators).

Julian Anastasov says:

	This patchset implements stats estimation in kthread context.
It replaces the code that runs on single CPU in timer context every 2
seconds and causing latency splats as shown in reports [1], [2], [3].
The solution targets setups with thousands of IPVS services,
destinations and multi-CPU boxes.

	Spread the estimation on multiple (configured) CPUs and multiple
time slots (timer ticks) by using multiple chains organized under RCU
rules.  When stats are not needed, it is recommended to use
run_estimation=0 as already implemented before this change.

RCU Locking:

- As stats are now RCU-locked, tot_stats, svc and dest which
hold estimator structures are now always freed from RCU
callback. This ensures RCU grace period after the
ip_vs_stop_estimator() call.

Kthread data:

- every kthread works over its own data structure and all
such structures are attached to array. For now we limit
kthreads depending on the number of CPUs.

- even while there can be a kthread structure, its task
may not be running, eg. before first service is added or
while the sysctl var is set to an empty cpulist or
when run_estimation is set to 0 to disable the estimation.

- the allocated kthread context may grow from 1 to 50
allocated structures for timer ticks which saves memory for
setups with small number of estimators

- a task and its structure may be released if all
estimators are unlinked from its chains, leaving the
slot in the array empty

- every kthread data structure allows limited number
of estimators. Kthread 0 is also used to initially
calculate the max number of estimators to allow in every
chain considering a sub-100 microsecond cond_resched
rate. This number can be from 1 to hundreds.

- kthread 0 has an additional job of optimizing the
adding of estimators: they are first added in
temp list (est_temp_list) and later kthread 0
distributes them to other kthreads. The optimization
is based on the fact that newly added estimator
should be estimated after 2 seconds, so we have the
time to offload the adding to chain from controlling
process to kthread 0.

- to add new estimators we use the last added kthread
context (est_add_ktid). The new estimators are linked to
the chains just before the estimated one, based on add_row.
This ensures their estimation will start after 2 seconds.
If estimators are added in bursts, common case if all
services and dests are initially configured, we may
spread the estimators to more chains and as result,
reducing the initial delay below 2 seconds.

Many thanks to Jiri Wiesner for his valuable comments
and for spending a lot of time reviewing and testing
the changes on different platforms with 48-256 CPUs and
1-8 NUMA nodes under different cpufreq governors.

The new IPVS estimators do not use workqueue infrastructure
because:

- The estimation can take long time when using multiple IPVS rules (eg.
  millions estimator structures) and especially when box has multiple
  CPUs due to the for_each_possible_cpu usage that expects packets from
  any CPU. With est_nice sysctl we have more control how to prioritize the
  estimation kthreads compared to other processes/kthreads that have
  latency requirements (such as servers). As a benefit, we can see these
  kthreads in top and decide if we will need some further control to limit
  their CPU usage (max number of structure to estimate per kthread).

- with kthreads we run code that is read-mostly, no write/lock
  operations to process the estimators in 2-second intervals.

- work items are one-shot: as estimators are processed every
  2 seconds, they need to be re-added every time. This again
  loads the timers (add_timer) if we use delayed works, as there are
  no kthreads to do the timings.

[1] Report from Yunhong Jiang:
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/D25792C1-1B89-45DE-9F10-EC350DC04ADC@gmail.com/
[2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtual-server&amp;m=159679809118027&amp;w=2
[3] Report from Dust:
    https://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-devel/2020-12/msg00000.html

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
  ipvs: run_estimation should control the kthread tasks
  ipvs: add est_cpulist and est_nice sysctl vars
  ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimation
  ipvs: use u64_stats_t for the per-cpu counters
  ipvs: use common functions for stats allocation
  ipvs: add rcu protection to stats
  netfilter: flowtable: add a 'default' case to flowtable datapath
  netfilter: conntrack: set icmpv6 redirects as RELATED
  netfilter: ipset: Add support for new bitmask parameter
  netfilter: conntrack: merge ipv4+ipv6 confirm functions
  netfilter: conntrack: add sctp DATA_SENT state
  netfilter: nft_inner: fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221211101204.1751-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next

1) Incorrect error check in nft_expr_inner_parse(), from Dan Carpenter.

2) Add DATA_SENT state to SCTP connection tracking helper, from
   Sriram Yagnaraman.

3) Consolidate nf_confirm for ipv4 and ipv6, from Florian Westphal.

4) Add bitmask support for ipset, from Vishwanath Pai.

5) Handle icmpv6 redirects as RELATED, from Florian Westphal.

6) Add WARN_ON_ONCE() to impossible case in flowtable datapath,
   from Li Qiong.

7) A large batch of IPVS updates to replace timer-based estimators by
   kthreads to scale up wrt. CPUs and workload (millions of estimators).

Julian Anastasov says:

	This patchset implements stats estimation in kthread context.
It replaces the code that runs on single CPU in timer context every 2
seconds and causing latency splats as shown in reports [1], [2], [3].
The solution targets setups with thousands of IPVS services,
destinations and multi-CPU boxes.

	Spread the estimation on multiple (configured) CPUs and multiple
time slots (timer ticks) by using multiple chains organized under RCU
rules.  When stats are not needed, it is recommended to use
run_estimation=0 as already implemented before this change.

RCU Locking:

- As stats are now RCU-locked, tot_stats, svc and dest which
hold estimator structures are now always freed from RCU
callback. This ensures RCU grace period after the
ip_vs_stop_estimator() call.

Kthread data:

- every kthread works over its own data structure and all
such structures are attached to array. For now we limit
kthreads depending on the number of CPUs.

- even while there can be a kthread structure, its task
may not be running, eg. before first service is added or
while the sysctl var is set to an empty cpulist or
when run_estimation is set to 0 to disable the estimation.

- the allocated kthread context may grow from 1 to 50
allocated structures for timer ticks which saves memory for
setups with small number of estimators

- a task and its structure may be released if all
estimators are unlinked from its chains, leaving the
slot in the array empty

- every kthread data structure allows limited number
of estimators. Kthread 0 is also used to initially
calculate the max number of estimators to allow in every
chain considering a sub-100 microsecond cond_resched
rate. This number can be from 1 to hundreds.

- kthread 0 has an additional job of optimizing the
adding of estimators: they are first added in
temp list (est_temp_list) and later kthread 0
distributes them to other kthreads. The optimization
is based on the fact that newly added estimator
should be estimated after 2 seconds, so we have the
time to offload the adding to chain from controlling
process to kthread 0.

- to add new estimators we use the last added kthread
context (est_add_ktid). The new estimators are linked to
the chains just before the estimated one, based on add_row.
This ensures their estimation will start after 2 seconds.
If estimators are added in bursts, common case if all
services and dests are initially configured, we may
spread the estimators to more chains and as result,
reducing the initial delay below 2 seconds.

Many thanks to Jiri Wiesner for his valuable comments
and for spending a lot of time reviewing and testing
the changes on different platforms with 48-256 CPUs and
1-8 NUMA nodes under different cpufreq governors.

The new IPVS estimators do not use workqueue infrastructure
because:

- The estimation can take long time when using multiple IPVS rules (eg.
  millions estimator structures) and especially when box has multiple
  CPUs due to the for_each_possible_cpu usage that expects packets from
  any CPU. With est_nice sysctl we have more control how to prioritize the
  estimation kthreads compared to other processes/kthreads that have
  latency requirements (such as servers). As a benefit, we can see these
  kthreads in top and decide if we will need some further control to limit
  their CPU usage (max number of structure to estimate per kthread).

- with kthreads we run code that is read-mostly, no write/lock
  operations to process the estimators in 2-second intervals.

- work items are one-shot: as estimators are processed every
  2 seconds, they need to be re-added every time. This again
  loads the timers (add_timer) if we use delayed works, as there are
  no kthreads to do the timings.

[1] Report from Yunhong Jiang:
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/D25792C1-1B89-45DE-9F10-EC350DC04ADC@gmail.com/
[2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-virtual-server&amp;m=159679809118027&amp;w=2
[3] Report from Dust:
    https://archive.linuxvirtualserver.org/html/lvs-devel/2020-12/msg00000.html

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
  ipvs: run_estimation should control the kthread tasks
  ipvs: add est_cpulist and est_nice sysctl vars
  ipvs: use kthreads for stats estimation
  ipvs: use u64_stats_t for the per-cpu counters
  ipvs: use common functions for stats allocation
  ipvs: add rcu protection to stats
  netfilter: flowtable: add a 'default' case to flowtable datapath
  netfilter: conntrack: set icmpv6 redirects as RELATED
  netfilter: ipset: Add support for new bitmask parameter
  netfilter: conntrack: merge ipv4+ipv6 confirm functions
  netfilter: conntrack: add sctp DATA_SENT state
  netfilter: nft_inner: fix IS_ERR() vs NULL check
====================

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221211101204.1751-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>net: move the nat function to nf_nat_ovs for ovs and tc</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T10:14:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xin Long</name>
<email>lucien.xin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-08T16:56:12+00:00</published>
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There are two nat functions are nearly the same in both OVS and
TC code, (ovs_)ct_nat_execute() and ovs_ct_nat/tcf_ct_act_nat().

This patch creates nf_nat_ovs.c under netfilter and moves them
there then exports nf_ct_nat() so that it can be shared by both
OVS and TC, and keeps the nat (type) check and nat flag update
in OVS and TC's own place, as these parts are different between
OVS and TC.

Note that in OVS nat function it was using skb-&gt;protocol to get
the proto as it already skips vlans in key_extract(), while it
doesn't in TC, and TC has to call skb_protocol() to get proto.
So in nf_ct_nat_execute(), we keep using skb_protocol() which
works for both OVS and TC contrack.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long &lt;lucien.xin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Aaron Conole &lt;aconole@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There are two nat functions are nearly the same in both OVS and
TC code, (ovs_)ct_nat_execute() and ovs_ct_nat/tcf_ct_act_nat().

This patch creates nf_nat_ovs.c under netfilter and moves them
there then exports nf_ct_nat() so that it can be shared by both
OVS and TC, and keeps the nat (type) check and nat flag update
in OVS and TC's own place, as these parts are different between
OVS and TC.

Note that in OVS nat function it was using skb-&gt;protocol to get
the proto as it already skips vlans in key_extract(), while it
doesn't in TC, and TC has to call skb_protocol() to get proto.
So in nf_ct_nat_execute(), we keep using skb_protocol() which
works for both OVS and TC contrack.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long &lt;lucien.xin@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Aaron Conole &lt;aconole@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipvs: run_estimation should control the kthread tasks</title>
<updated>2022-12-10T21:44:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Anastasov</name>
<email>ja@ssi.bg</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-22T16:46:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=144361c1949f227df9244302da02c258a363b674'/>
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Change the run_estimation flag to start/stop the kthread tasks.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang &lt;xintian1976@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "dust.li" &lt;dust.li@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner &lt;jwiesner@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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Change the run_estimation flag to start/stop the kthread tasks.

Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov &lt;ja@ssi.bg&gt;
Cc: yunhong-cgl jiang &lt;xintian1976@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "dust.li" &lt;dust.li@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Wiesner &lt;jwiesner@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso &lt;pablo@netfilter.org&gt;
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