datapath: Add support for conntrack timeout policy
This patch adds support for specifying a timeout policy for a
connection in connection tracking system in kernel datapath.
The timeout policy will be attached to a connection when the
connection is committed to conntrack.
This patch introduces a new odp field OVS_CT_ATTR_TIMEOUT in the
ct action that specifies the timeout policy in the datapath.
In the following patch, during the upcall process, the vswitchd will use
the ct_zone to look up the corresponding timeout policy and fill
OVS_CT_ATTR_TIMEOUT if it is available.
The datapath code is from the following two net-next upstream commits.
Upstream commit:
commit
06bd2bdf19d2f3d22731625e1a47fa1dff5ac407
Author: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Mar 26 11:31:14 2019 -0700
openvswitch: Add timeout support to ct action
Add support for fine-grain timeout support to conntrack action.
The new OVS_CT_ATTR_TIMEOUT attribute of the conntrack action
specifies a timeout to be associated with this connection.
If no timeout is specified, it acts as is, that is the default
timeout for the connection will be automatically applied.
Example usage:
$ nfct timeout add timeout_1 inet tcp syn_sent 100 established 200
$ ovs-ofctl add-flow br0 in_port=1,ip,tcp,action=ct(commit,timeout=timeout_1)
CC: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
CC: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
commit
6d670497e01803b486aa72cc1a718401ab986896
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Tue Apr 2 09:53:14 2019 +0300
openvswitch: use after free in __ovs_ct_free_action()
We free "ct_info->ct" and then use it on the next line when we pass it
to nf_ct_destroy_timeout(). This patch swaps the order to avoid the use
after free.
Fixes: 06bd2bdf19d2 ("openvswitch: Add timeout support to ct action")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit@ovn.org>