From: Qihang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>
To: pablo@netfilter.org, fw@strlen.de
Cc: phil@nwl.cc, vladbu@nvidia.com, ozsh@nvidia.com,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Qihang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] netfilter: nf_flow_table: defer pernet stats release to last flowtable teardown
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 14:55:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105065509.94627-1-q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com> (raw)
The pernet flowtable statistics (net->ft.stat) are released when the
netns exits, but the flowtables attached to a dying netns are torn down
asynchronously afterwards: the tc conntrack action frees its flowtable
from an RCU-delayed workqueue item (tcf_ct_flow_table_cleanup_work()),
and nf_tables releases flowtables from the transaction release work.
nf_flow_table_free() ends with a garbage-collection pass that queues
offload works; flow_offload_queue_work() increments the pernet counters
when scheduling them and the handlers decrement the counters again once
they complete. The flushes in nf_flow_table_free() only drain those
workqueues when hardware offload is in use, so after free_percpu() the
stray workers still this_cpu_inc()/this_cpu_dec() into freed percpu
memory.
Account flowtables at init time and defer the release of the statistics
to the last nf_flow_table_free() of a dismantled netns, after draining
the offload workqueues. A netns without flowtables keeps the
synchronous release.
Fixes: b038177636f8 ("netfilter: nf_flow_table: count pending offload workqueue tasks")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Qihang <q.h.hack.winter@gmail.com>
---
include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h | 1 +
include/net/netns/flow_table.h | 11 +++++++
net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c | 7 +++++
4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
index 5b22d31cb1407..91ffa3072a0cc 100644
--- a/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
+++ b/include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ void nf_flow_offload_stats(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
void nf_flow_table_offload_flush(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable);
void nf_flow_table_offload_flush_cleanup(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable);
+void nf_flow_table_offload_drain(void);
int nf_flow_table_offload_setup(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
struct net_device *dev,
diff --git a/include/net/netns/flow_table.h b/include/net/netns/flow_table.h
index 1c5fc657e2675..6d2dc0d1f06c7 100644
--- a/include/net/netns/flow_table.h
+++ b/include/net/netns/flow_table.h
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
#ifndef __NETNS_FLOW_TABLE_H
#define __NETNS_FLOW_TABLE_H
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
struct nf_flow_table_stat {
unsigned int count_wq_add;
unsigned int count_wq_del;
@@ -9,6 +12,14 @@ struct nf_flow_table_stat {
};
struct netns_ft {
+ /* Protects nr_ft and exiting. */
+ spinlock_t lock;
+ /* Number of flowtables attached to this netns. */
+ int nr_ft;
+ /* Set at netns exit; the statistics are then released by the
+ * last flowtable teardown.
+ */
+ bool exiting;
struct nf_flow_table_stat __percpu *stat;
};
#endif
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index 0d72dc8ae47a1..de0a9f0e4f7b9 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_dnat_port);
int nf_flow_table_init(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable)
{
+ struct net *net;
int err;
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&flowtable->gc_work, nf_flow_offload_work_gc);
@@ -733,6 +734,13 @@ int nf_flow_table_init(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable)
list_add(&flowtable->list, &flowtables);
mutex_unlock(&flowtable_lock);
+ net = read_pnet(&flowtable->net);
+ if (net) {
+ spin_lock(&net->ft.lock);
+ net->ft.nr_ft++;
+ spin_unlock(&net->ft.lock);
+ }
+
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_table_init);
@@ -771,6 +779,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_table_cleanup);
void nf_flow_table_free(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table)
{
+ struct net *net;
+
mutex_lock(&flowtable_lock);
list_del(&flow_table->list);
mutex_unlock(&flowtable_lock);
@@ -781,19 +791,51 @@ void nf_flow_table_free(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table)
nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_table_do_cleanup, NULL);
nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
nf_flow_table_offload_flush_cleanup(flow_table);
+
+ /* The gc pass above can still queue offload works whose handlers
+ * decrement the pernet statistics. Drain them all.
+ */
+ nf_flow_table_offload_drain();
rhashtable_destroy(&flow_table->rhashtable);
+
+ net = read_pnet(&flow_table->net);
+ if (net) {
+ bool release;
+
+ spin_lock(&net->ft.lock);
+ release = net->ft.exiting && !--net->ft.nr_ft;
+ spin_unlock(&net->ft.lock);
+
+ /* Released by the last flowtable teardown, see
+ * nf_flow_table_fini_net().
+ */
+ if (release)
+ free_percpu(net->ft.stat);
+ }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_table_free);
static int nf_flow_table_init_net(struct net *net)
{
+ spin_lock_init(&net->ft.lock);
net->ft.stat = alloc_percpu(struct nf_flow_table_stat);
return net->ft.stat ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
static void nf_flow_table_fini_net(struct net *net)
{
- free_percpu(net->ft.stat);
+ bool release;
+
+ spin_lock(&net->ft.lock);
+ net->ft.exiting = true;
+ release = !net->ft.nr_ft;
+ spin_unlock(&net->ft.lock);
+
+ /* Pending flowtables still update the statistics from workqueue
+ * context; the last one releases them, see nf_flow_table_free().
+ */
+ if (release)
+ free_percpu(net->ft.stat);
}
static int nf_flow_table_pernet_init(struct net *net)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c
index 4365859220e6a..6ac28802ef632 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c
@@ -1180,6 +1180,13 @@ void nf_flow_table_offload_flush(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable)
}
}
+void nf_flow_table_offload_drain(void)
+{
+ flush_workqueue(nf_flow_offload_add_wq);
+ flush_workqueue(nf_flow_offload_del_wq);
+ flush_workqueue(nf_flow_offload_stats_wq);
+}
+
static int nf_flow_table_block_setup(struct nf_flowtable *flowtable,
struct flow_block_offload *bo,
enum flow_block_command cmd)
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)
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