Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups

From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:20:02 +0200

Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> 
> Syzbot was able to trigger the following warning [1]
> 
> No repro found by syzbot yet but I was able to trigger similar issue
> by having 2 scripts running in parallel, changing conntrack hash sizes,
> and:
> 
> for j in `seq 1 1000` ; do unshare -n /bin/true >/dev/null ; done
> 
> It would take more than 5 minutes for net_namespace structures
> to be cleaned up.
> 
> This is because nf_ct_iterate_cleanup() has to restart everytime
> a resize happened.
> 
> By adding a mutex, we can serialize hash resizes and cleanups
> and also make get_next_corpse() faster by skipping over empty
> buckets.
> 
> Even without resizes in the picture, this patch considerably
> speeds up network namespace dismantles.

LGTM, thanks Eric.

I have been working on patches to make hash table pernet again,
but they will take a bit more time to finish and are not suited for -net.