Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: flowtable: avoid possible false sharing
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 10:10:29 +0200

The flowtable follows the same timeout approach as conntrack, use the
same idiom as in cc16921351d8 ("netfilter: conntrack: avoid same-timeout
update") but also include the fix provided by e37542ba111f ("netfilter:
conntrack: avoid possible false sharing").

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email-masked]>
---

--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -331,7 +331,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flow_offload_add);
 void flow_offload_refresh(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
 			  struct flow_offload *flow)
 {
-	flow->timeout = nf_flowtable_time_stamp + flow_offload_get_timeout(flow);
+	u32 timeout;
+
+	timeout = nf_flowtable_time_stamp + flow_offload_get_timeout(flow);
+	if (READ_ONCE(flow->timeout) != timeout)
+		WRITE_ONCE(flow->timeout, timeout);
 
 	if (likely(!nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table)))
 		return;