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Pablo Neira Ayuso says:
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Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next
The following patchset contains Netfilter/IPVS updates for net-next.
More specifically, this contains conncount rework to address AI related
reports, assorted Netfiter updates and two small incremental updates on
IPVS:
1) Replace old obsolete workqueues (system_wq, system_unbound_wq)
in IPVS, from Marco Crivellari.
2) Replace WARN_ON{_ONCE} by DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE in nf_tables.
In the recent years, reporters say that the use of WARN_ON{_ONCE}
in conjunction with panic_on_warn=1 results in DoS. Let's replace
it by DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE so this is only exercised by test
infrastructure and fuzzers, while also providing context to AI
agents. From Fernando F. Mancera.
Five patches from Florian Westphal to address AI reports in the conncount
infrastructures:
3) Fix missing rcu read lock section when calling
__ovs_ct_limit_get_zone_limit().
4) Add a dedicate lock per rbtree tree, this increases memory
usage but it should improve scalability.
5) Add a helper function to find the rbtree node, no functional
changes are intented.
6) Add sequence counter to detect concurrent tree modifications
and retry lookups.
7) Add locks to GC conncount walk and address other nitpicks.
Then, several assorted updates:
8) Defensive Tree-wide addition of NULL checks for ct extensions.
9) Bail out if flowtable bypass cannot be fully set up from the
flow offload expression, instead of lazy building a likely
incomplete one.
10) Fix documentation for the new conn_max sysctl toggle in IPVS.
11) Add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them, to address
recent AI reports.
* tag 'nf-next-26-06-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next:
netfilter: nf_dup_netdev: add nf_dev_xmit_recursion*() helpers and use them
ipvs: fix doc syntax for conn_max sysctl
netfilter: flowtable: bail out if forward path cannot be discovered
netfilter: conntrack: check NULL when retrieving ct extension
netfilter: nf_conncount: gc and rcu fixes
netfilter: nf_conncount: add sequence counter to detect tree modifications
netfilter: nf_conncount: split count_tree_node rbtree walk into helper
netfilter: nf_conncount: use per nf_conncount_data spinlocks
netfilter: nf_conncount: callers must hold rcu read lock
netfilter: nf_tables: use DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE in packet and control paths
ipvs: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_long_wq
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260614114605.474783-1-pablo@netfilter.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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