APPLIED: [SRU][F:linux-bluefield][PATCH V1 00/10] Increase stability with connection tracking offload

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

Applied to focal:linux-bluefield/master-next. Thanks.

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Best regards,
Bartlomiej

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:34 PM Bodong Wang <bodong at nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> Currently qdisc ingress handling (sch_handle_ingress()) doesn't
> set a return value and it is left to the old return value of
> the caller (__netif_receive_skb_core()) which is RX drop, so if
> the packet is consumed, caller will stop and return this value
> as if the packet was dropped.
>
> Also, include set of patches to increase stability with connection tracking
> offload, including reduced cpu load and possible deadlock on cleanup.
>
> V0->V1:
> Fix sha number for patch "netfilter: flowtable: Make sure GC works
> periodically in idle system"
>
> Eric Dumazet (1):
>   netfilter: conntrack: annotate data-races around ct->timeout
>
> Felix Fietkau (1):
>   netfilter: flowtable: fix excessive hw offload attempts after failure
>
> Florian Westphal (2):
>   netfilter: conntrack: remove unneeded nf_ct_put
>   netfilter: conntrack: convert to refcount_t api
>
> Pablo Neira Ayuso (4):
>   netfilter: flowtable: avoid possible false sharing
>   netfilter: nf_flowtable: expose nf_flow_table_gc_cleanup()
>   netfilter: flowtable: add function to invoke garbage collection
>     immediately
>   netfilter: flowtable: fix stuck flows on cleanup due to pending work
>
> Paul Blakey (1):
>   net: Fix return value of qdisc ingress handling on success
>
> Yinjun Zhang (1):
>   netfilter: flowtable: Make sure GC works periodically in idle system
>
>  include/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h |  8 +++---
>  include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h          |  6 ++---
>  include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h         |  5 ++++
>  net/core/dev.c                                |  4 +++
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c             | 39 +++++++++++++--------------
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_expect.c           |  4 +--
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c          |  8 +++---
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c       |  4 +--
>  net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c            | 38 ++++++++++++++++----------
>  net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c         |  8 ++++++
>  net/netfilter/nf_synproxy_core.c              |  1 -
>  net/netfilter/nft_ct.c                        |  4 +--
>  net/netfilter/xt_CT.c                         |  3 +--
>  net/openvswitch/conntrack.c                   |  1 -
>  net/sched/act_ct.c                            |  1 -
>  15 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>
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> 1.8.3.1