netdev - [PATCH net 2/3] netfilter: nf_conncount: garbage collection is not skipped when jiffies wrap around

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Message-Id: <20250306153446.46712-3-pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2025 16:34:45 +0100
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To: netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com,
	fw@...len.de,
	horms@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH net 2/3] netfilter: nf_conncount: garbage collection is not skipped when jiffies wrap around

From: Nicklas Bo Jensen <njensen@...mai.com>

nf_conncount is supposed to skip garbage collection if it has already
run garbage collection in the same jiffy. Unfortunately, this is broken
when jiffies wrap around which this patch fixes.

The problem is that last_gc in the nf_conncount_list struct is an u32,
but jiffies is an unsigned long which is 8 bytes on my systems. When
those two are compared it only works until last_gc wraps around.

See bug report: https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1778
for more details.

Fixes: d265929930e2 ("netfilter: nf_conncount: reduce unnecessary GC")
Signed-off-by: Nicklas Bo Jensen <njensen@...mai.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
index 4890af4dc263..ebe38ed2e6f4 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static int __nf_conncount_add(struct net *net,
 	struct nf_conn *found_ct;
 	unsigned int collect = 0;
 
-	if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies((unsigned long)list->last_gc))
+	if ((u32)jiffies == list->last_gc)
 		goto add_new_node;
 
 	/* check the saved connections */
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ bool nf_conncount_gc_list(struct net *net,
 	bool ret = false;
 
 	/* don't bother if we just did GC */
-	if (time_is_after_eq_jiffies((unsigned long)READ_ONCE(list->last_gc)))
+	if ((u32)jiffies == READ_ONCE(list->last_gc))
 		return false;
 
 	/* don't bother if other cpu is already doing GC */
-- 
2.30.2