netfilter: don't rely on DYING bit to detect when destroy event was sent

The reliable event delivery mode currently (ab)uses the DYING bit to
detect which entries on the dying list have to be skipped when
re-delivering events from the eache worker in reliable event mode.

Currently when we delete the conntrack from main table we only set this
bit if we could also deliver the netlink destroy event to userspace.

If we fail we move it to the dying list, the ecache worker will
reattempt event delivery for all confirmed conntracks on the dying list
that do not have the DYING bit set.

Once timer is gone, we can no longer use if (del_timer()) to detect
when we 'stole' the reference count owned by the timer/hash entry, so
we need some other way to avoid racing with other cpu.

Pablo suggested to add a marker in the ecache extension that skips
entries that have been unhashed from main table but are still waiting
for the last reference count to be dropped (e.g. because one skb waiting
on nfqueue verdict still holds a reference).

We do this by adding a tristate.
If we fail to deliver the destroy event, make a note of this in the
eache extension.  The worker can then skip all entries that are in
a different state.  Either they never delivered a destroy event,
e.g. because the netlink backend was not loaded, or redelivery took
place already.

Once the conntrack timer is removed we will now be able to replace
del_timer() test with test_and_set_bit(DYING, &ct->status) to avoid
racing with other cpu that tries to evict the same conntrack.

Because DYING will then be set right before we report the destroy event
we can no longer skip event reporting when dying bit is set.

Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

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