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    netfilter: nf_conntrack: add IPS_OFFLOAD status bit · 90964016
    Pablo Neira Ayuso authored
    
    
    This new bit tells us that the conntrack entry is owned by the flow
    table offload infrastructure.
    
     # cat /proc/net/nf_conntrack
     ipv4     2 tcp      6 src=10.141.10.2 dst=147.75.205.195 sport=36392 dport=443 src=147.75.205.195 dst=192.168.2.195 sport=443 dport=36392 [OFFLOAD] mark=0 zone=0 use=2
    
    Note the [OFFLOAD] tag in the listing.
    
    The timer of such conntrack entries look like stopped from userspace.
    In practise, to make sure the conntrack entry does not go away, the
    conntrack timer is periodically set to an arbitrary large value that
    gets refreshed on every iteration from the garbage collector, so it
    never expires- and they display no internal state in the case of TCP
    flows. This allows us to save a bitcheck from the packet path via
    nf_ct_is_expired().
    
    Conntrack entries that have been offloaded to the flow table
    infrastructure cannot be deleted/flushed via ctnetlink. The flow table
    infrastructure is also responsible for releasing this conntrack entry.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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