Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf

Pablo Neira Ayuso says:

====================
Netfilter fixes for net

The following patchset contain a rather large batch for your net that
includes accumulated bugfixes, they are:

1) Run conntrack cleanup from workqueue process context to avoid hitting
   soft lockup via watchdog for large tables. This is required by the
   IPv6 masquerading extension. From Florian Westphal.

2) Use original skbuff from nfnetlink batch when calling netlink_ack()
   on error since this needs to access the skb->sk pointer.

3) Incremental fix on top of recent Sasha Levin's lock fix for conntrack
   resizing.

4) Fix several problems in nfnetlink batch message header sanitization
   and error handling, from Phil Turnbull.

5) Select NF_DUP_IPV6 based on CONFIG_IPV6, from Arnd Bergmann.

6) Fix wrong signess in return values on nf_tables counter expression,
   from Anton Protopopov.

Due to the NetDev 1.1 organization burden, I had no chance to pass up
this to you any sooner in this release cycle, sorry about that.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 71 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6.c
index 31ba7ca..051b6a6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6.c
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
 #include <net/ipv6.h>
 #include <net/netfilter/ipv6/nf_nat_masquerade.h>
 
+#define MAX_WORK_COUNT	16
+
+static atomic_t v6_worker_count;
+
 unsigned int
 nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct nf_nat_range *range,
 		       const struct net_device *out)
@@ -78,14 +82,78 @@ static struct notifier_block masq_dev_notifier = {
 	.notifier_call	= masq_device_event,
 };
 
+struct masq_dev_work {
+	struct work_struct work;
+	struct net *net;
+	int ifindex;
+};
+
+static void iterate_cleanup_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct masq_dev_work *w;
+	long index;
+
+	w = container_of(work, struct masq_dev_work, work);
+
+	index = w->ifindex;
+	nf_ct_iterate_cleanup(w->net, device_cmp, (void *)index, 0, 0);
+
+	put_net(w->net);
+	kfree(w);
+	atomic_dec(&v6_worker_count);
+	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+}
+
+/* ipv6 inet notifier is an atomic notifier, i.e. we cannot
+ * schedule.
+ *
+ * Unfortunately, nf_ct_iterate_cleanup can run for a long
+ * time if there are lots of conntracks and the system
+ * handles high softirq load, so it frequently calls cond_resched
+ * while iterating the conntrack table.
+ *
+ * So we defer nf_ct_iterate_cleanup walk to the system workqueue.
+ *
+ * As we can have 'a lot' of inet_events (depending on amount
+ * of ipv6 addresses being deleted), we also need to add an upper
+ * limit to the number of queued work items.
+ */
 static int masq_inet_event(struct notifier_block *this,
 			   unsigned long event, void *ptr)
 {
 	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa = ptr;
-	struct netdev_notifier_info info;
+	const struct net_device *dev;
+	struct masq_dev_work *w;
+	struct net *net;
+
+	if (event != NETDEV_DOWN ||
+	    atomic_read(&v6_worker_count) >= MAX_WORK_COUNT)
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
+	dev = ifa->idev->dev;
+	net = maybe_get_net(dev_net(dev));
+	if (!net)
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
-	netdev_notifier_info_init(&info, ifa->idev->dev);
-	return masq_device_event(this, event, &info);
+	if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
+		goto err_module;
+
+	w = kmalloc(sizeof(*w), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (w) {
+		atomic_inc(&v6_worker_count);
+
+		INIT_WORK(&w->work, iterate_cleanup_work);
+		w->ifindex = dev->ifindex;
+		w->net = net;
+		schedule_work(&w->work);
+
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+	}
+
+	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+ err_module:
+	put_net(net);
+	return NOTIFY_DONE;
 }
 
 static struct notifier_block masq_inet_notifier = {