Re: Flowtables ignore timeout settings in recent kernels

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:56:14PM +0200, Vladimir Smelhaus wrote:
> Netfilter ignores the timeout settings for a flowtable
> 
> # sysctl -a -r flowtable
> net.netfilter.nf_flowtable_tcp_timeout = 30
> net.netfilter.nf_flowtable_udp_timeout = 30
> 
> Situation. A long udp connection (tunnel) with some data flowing through a
> router. The connection is sent to a flowtable on the router. It's a few
> packets per second, more here and there, a pause here and there, and so on
> over and over. The pauses are minimal and are also limited by the tunnel
> settings to be no longer than 25 seconds. Everything is satisfying to make
> the connection last continuously in the flowtable and not reappear in
> forward. However, the connection keeps dropping out of the flowtable. It
> stays in the flowtable (offloaded) for a second at most and then it is
> kicked out, back to forward.
> 
> In an attached test script you can see counters that should be zero but are not. If I watch the normal packet flow on a particular router, I can see packets in the conntrack table that should be OFFLOAD as ASSURED.
> 
> Tested in kernel 6.5.6. In an old(er) kernel 5.10 it works as expected.
> 

Then please perform bisection to find a culprit that introduces your
regression (see Documentation/admin-guide/bug-bisect.rst in the kernel
sources for reference). Also, it'd been great if you also post the
reproducer script inline (within your email) instead, as some MUAs
(like mutt that I'm using now) may ignore the attachment.

Anyway, thanks for the regression report. I'm adding it to regzbot:

#regzbot ^introduced: v5.10..v6.5

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