[PATCH 4.4 31/31] netfilter: nft_dynset: fix element timeout for HZ != 1000

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 09:59:51 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Anders K. Pedersen <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit a8b1e36d0d1d6f51490e7adce35367ed6adb10e7 upstream.

With HZ=100 element timeout in dynamic sets (i.e. flow tables) is 10 times
higher than configured.

Add proper conversion to/from jiffies, when interacting with userspace.

I tested this on Linux 4.8.1, and it applies cleanly to current nf and
nf-next trees.

Fixes: 22fe54d5fefc ("netfilter: nf_tables: add support for dynamic set updates")
Signed-off-by: Anders K. Pedersen <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ static int nft_dynset_init(const struct
if (tb[NFTA_DYNSET_TIMEOUT] != NULL) {
if (!(set->flags & NFT_SET_TIMEOUT))
return -EINVAL;
- timeout = be64_to_cpu(nla_get_be64(tb[NFTA_DYNSET_TIMEOUT]));
+ timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(be64_to_cpu(nla_get_be64(
+ tb[NFTA_DYNSET_TIMEOUT])));
}

priv->sreg_key = nft_parse_register(tb[NFTA_DYNSET_SREG_KEY]);
@@ -227,7 +228,8 @@ static int nft_dynset_dump(struct sk_buf
goto nla_put_failure;
if (nla_put_string(skb, NFTA_DYNSET_SET_NAME, priv->set->name))
goto nla_put_failure;
- if (nla_put_be64(skb, NFTA_DYNSET_TIMEOUT, cpu_to_be64(priv->timeout)))
+ if (nla_put_be64(skb, NFTA_DYNSET_TIMEOUT,
+ cpu_to_be64(jiffies_to_msecs(priv->timeout))))
goto nla_put_failure;
if (priv->expr && nft_expr_dump(skb, NFTA_DYNSET_EXPR, priv->expr))
goto nla_put_failure;