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Message-ID: <20251126205611.1284486-12-pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:56:06 +0000
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-next 11/16] netfilter: nf_conncount: make nf_conncount_gc_list() to disable BH

From: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@...e.de>

For convenience when performing GC over the connection list, make
nf_conncount_gc_list() to disable BH. This unifies the behavior with
nf_conncount_add() and nf_conncount_count().

Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <fmancera@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c  | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
 net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c |  7 +------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
index dbaa3051577c..eabce7e141f8 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conncount.c
@@ -278,8 +278,8 @@ void nf_conncount_list_init(struct nf_conncount_list *list)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_conncount_list_init);
 
 /* Return true if the list is empty. Must be called with BH disabled. */
-bool nf_conncount_gc_list(struct net *net,
-			  struct nf_conncount_list *list)
+static bool __nf_conncount_gc_list(struct net *net,
+				   struct nf_conncount_list *list)
 {
 	const struct nf_conntrack_tuple_hash *found;
 	struct nf_conncount_tuple *conn, *conn_n;
@@ -291,10 +291,6 @@ bool nf_conncount_gc_list(struct net *net,
 	if ((u32)jiffies == READ_ONCE(list->last_gc))
 		return false;
 
-	/* don't bother if other cpu is already doing GC */
-	if (!spin_trylock(&list->list_lock))
-		return false;
-
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(conn, conn_n, &list->head, node) {
 		found = find_or_evict(net, list, conn);
 		if (IS_ERR(found)) {
@@ -323,7 +319,21 @@ bool nf_conncount_gc_list(struct net *net,
 	if (!list->count)
 		ret = true;
 	list->last_gc = (u32)jiffies;
-	spin_unlock(&list->list_lock);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+bool nf_conncount_gc_list(struct net *net,
+			  struct nf_conncount_list *list)
+{
+	bool ret;
+
+	/* don't bother if other cpu is already doing GC */
+	if (!spin_trylock_bh(&list->list_lock))
+		return false;
+
+	ret = __nf_conncount_gc_list(net, list);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&list->list_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c b/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
index 5df7134131d2..41770bde39d3 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_connlimit.c
@@ -223,13 +223,8 @@ static void nft_connlimit_destroy_clone(const struct nft_ctx *ctx,
 static bool nft_connlimit_gc(struct net *net, const struct nft_expr *expr)
 {
 	struct nft_connlimit *priv = nft_expr_priv(expr);
-	bool ret;
 
-	local_bh_disable();
-	ret = nf_conncount_gc_list(net, priv->list);
-	local_bh_enable();
-
-	return ret;
+	return nf_conncount_gc_list(net, priv->list);
 }
 
 static struct nft_expr_type nft_connlimit_type;
-- 
2.47.3