[net-next,v2,0/7] Allow offloading of UDP NEW connections via act_ct

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Vlad Buslov Jan. 13, 2023, 4:55 p.m. UTC

Currently only bidirectional established connections can be offloaded
via act_ct. Such approach allows to hardcode a lot of assumptions into
act_ct, flow_table and flow_offload intermediate layer codes. In order
to enabled offloading of unidirectional UDP NEW connections start with
incrementally changing the following assumptions:

- CT meta action metadata doesn't store ctinfo as "established" or
  "established replied" is assumed depending on the direction.
  Explicitly provide ctinfo as a new structure field and modify act_ct
  to set it according to current connection state.

- Fix flow_table offload fixup algorithm to calculate flow timeout
  according to current connection state instead of hardcoded
  "established" value.

- Add new flow_table flow flag that designates bidirectional connections
  instead of assuming it and hardcoding hardware offload of every flow
  in both directions.

- Add new flow_table flow flag that marks the flow for asynchronous
  update. Hardware offload state of such flows is updated by gc task by
  leveraging existing flow 'refresh' code.

With all the necessary infrastructure in place modify act_ct to offload
UDP NEW as unidirectional connection. Pass reply direction traffic to CT
and promote connection to bidirectional when UDP connection state
changes to "assured". Rely on refresh mechanism to propagate connection
state change to supporting drivers.

Note that early drop algorithm that is designed to free up some space in
connection tracking table when it becomes full (by randomly deleting up
to 5% of non-established connections) currently ignores connections
marked as "offloaded". Now, with UDP NEW connections becoming
"offloaded" it could allow malicious user to perform DoS attack by
filling the table with non-droppable UDP NEW connections by sending just
one packet in single direction. To prevent such scenario change early
drop algorithm to also consider "offloaded" connections for deletion.

Vlad Buslov (7):
  net: flow_offload: provision conntrack info in ct_metadata
  netfilter: flowtable: fixup UDP timeout depending on ct state
  netfilter: flowtable: allow unidirectional rules
  netfilter: flowtable: allow updating offloaded rules asynchronously
  net/sched: act_ct: set ctinfo in meta action depending on ct state
  net/sched: act_ct: offload UDP NEW connections
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: allow early drop of offloaded UDP conns

 .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en/tc_ct.c    |  2 +-
 .../ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/conntrack.c | 20 +++++++
 include/net/flow_offload.h                    |  2 +
 include/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table.h         |  4 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c             | 11 ++--
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c            | 25 +++++++--
 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_offload.c         | 17 ++++--
 net/sched/act_ct.c                            | 56 ++++++++++++++-----
 8 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)