ACK/cmnt: [SRU][F:linux-bluefield][PATCH] netfilter: flowtable: Free block_cb when being deleted

Daniel Jurgens danielj at nvidia.com
Wed May 19 15:26:09 UTC 2021


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kleber Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
> Subject: ACK/cmnt: [SRU][F:linux-bluefield][PATCH] netfilter: flowtable: Free
> block_cb when being deleted
> 
> On 18.05.21 23:42, Daniel Jurgens wrote:
> > From: Roi Dayan <roid at mellanox.com>
> >
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1927252
> >
> > Free block_cb memory when asked to be deleted.
> >
> > Fixes: 978703f42549 ("netfilter: flowtable: Add API for registering to
> > flow table events")
> > Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid at mellanox.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Paul Blakey <paulb at mellanox.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Oz Shlomo <ozsh at mellanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org> (backported
> > from commit bc8e71314e8444c6315c482441f3204c032ab327)
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj at nvidia.com>
> 
> Taking into consideration my comments below when applying this patch:
> 
> Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> >
> > ---
> >   net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c | 6 ++++--
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
> > b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
> > index 5144e31..0336117 100644
> > --- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
> > +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
> > @@ -427,10 +427,12 @@ void nf_flow_table_offload_del_cb(struct
> > nf_flowtable *flow_table,
> >
> >   	mutex_lock(&flow_table->flow_block_lock);
> >   	block_cb = flow_block_cb_lookup(block, cb, cb_priv);
> > -	if (block_cb)
> > +	if (block_cb) {
> >   		list_del(&block_cb->list);
> > -	else
> > +		flow_block_cb_free(block_cb);
> > +	} else {
> >   		WARN_ON(true);
> > +	}
> >   	mutex_unlock(&flow_table->flow_block_lock);
> >   }
> >   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_table_offload_del_cb);
> >
> 
> 
> Please note that there is another patch submitted ("netfilter: flowtable: Use
> rw sem as flow block lock") touching the same block above, replacing
> mutex_lock. So some context adjustments will be needed when applying
> them.
> 
> This patch doesn't need to be resubmitted, this is just a note for whoever will
> be applying these patches.

Thanks, I had originally submitted them in a series for this reason, but it was NACKed because of multiple bugs in on submission.

> 
> Kleber



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