tcp rst/fin packet triggers an immediate teardown of the flow which
results in sending flows back to the classic forwarding path.
This behaviour was introduced by:
da5984e510 ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: add support for sending flows back to the slow path")
b6f27d322a ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: tear down TCP flows if RST or FIN was seen")
whose goal is to expedite removal of flow entries from the hardware
table. Before these patches, the flow was released after the flow entry
timed out.
However, this approach leads to packet races when restoring the
conntrack state as well as late flow re-offload situations when the TCP
connection is ending.
This patch adds a new CLOSING state that is is entered when tcp rst/fin
packet is seen. This allows for an early removal of the flow entry from
the hardware table. But the flow entry still remains in software, so tcp
packets to shut down the flow are not sent back to slow path.
If syn packet is seen from this new CLOSING state, then this flow enters
teardown state, ct state is set to TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE state and packet
is sent to slow path, so this TCP reopen scenario can be handled by
conntrack. TCP_CONNTRACK_CLOSE provides a small timeout that aims at
quickly releasing this stale entry from the conntrack table.
Moreover, skip hardware re-offload from flowtable software packet if the
flow is in CLOSING state.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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