kernel/linux.git/include/net/ip_vs.h, branch v5.15.219

ipvs: separate destination availability state

2026-08-23T12:17:14+00:00

commit cdcc4e46180df8161f4d2f3c6fd6beaf6990133d upstream. IPVS configuration paths update destination availability while connection accounting updates destination overload state. The two independent states share dest->flags, so their read-modify-write updates can race and lose one another. Keep OVERLOAD in flags, where the preceding patch serializes its updates with dst_lock, and move AVAILABLE to cflags. This keeps configuration- controlled availability out of the scheduler hot cacheline until a scheduler needs to check it. It also prevents availability updates from clobbering overload state. The destination status bits are not exposed through the IPVS sockopt or netlink interfaces, so keep their definitions in the internal IPVS header. Readers can still observe stale destination state; this does not provide a cross-field snapshot. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang Reported-by: Ao Wang Reported-by: Xuewei Feng Reported-by: Qi Li Reported-by: Ke Xu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8913381c-1e02-35c7-0ec4-61de5a12fd35@ssi.bg/ Assisted-by: Claude-Code:GLM-5.2 Suggested-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao Acked-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso (cherry picked from commit cdcc4e46180df8161f4d2f3c6fd6beaf6990133d) [ Julian: Backport by removing the hunks from ip_vs_xmit.c ] Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: properly update the overload flag on dest edit

2026-08-19T15:14:15+00:00

commit 8f843441c4e7eae8ea83491e8c203c2b192edcf5 upstream. The upper/lower connection thresholds for dest can be changed, so use ip_vs_dest_update_overload() to properly update the dest overload flag. The thresholds were not limited, fit them in the 0 .. INT_MAX range as already done in ipvsadm. As the thresholds are also read when connections are created and expired, use WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE to access them. As the lower threshold is optional, use (u - (u >> 2)) to calculate the 75% default value based on the upper threshold by preserving the integer rounding, as suggested by Yizhou Zhao. Trigger flag update when totalconns reaches one of the thresholds and use dst_lock to serialize the updating. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipvs: add totalconns for dest

2026-08-19T15:14:15+00:00

commit 04d2feaed8d0103c498727191ba04001d5100e67 upstream. Replace the inactconns dest counter with totalconns, now inactconns can be obtained from totalconns - activeconns. This reduces the atomic inc/dec ops for TCP/SCTP from 6 to 4 if the connection is established and then closed. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipvs: pass parsed transport offset to state handlers

2026-07-24T13:51:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit bae7ce7bafb59e42dc0e0e2999fdd9d1cffe3866 ] IPVS callers already parse the packet into struct ip_vs_iphdr before updating connection state. For IPv6 this records the real transport-header offset after extension headers in iph.len. Pass this parsed transport offset through ip_vs_set_state() and the protocol state_transition() callback so protocol handlers can use the same packet context as scheduling and NAT handling. This patch only changes the common callback plumbing and adapts the protocol callback signatures; TCP and SCTP start using the value in follow-up patches. Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao Acked-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Stable-dep-of: 2500fa3958b1 ("ipvs: use parsed transport offset in TCP state lookup") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: clear the svc scheduler ptr early on edit

2026-06-19T11:33:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 193989cc6d80dd8e0460fb3992e69fa03bf0ff9b ] ip_vs_edit_service() while unbinding the old scheduler clears the svc->scheduler ptr after the scheduler module initiates RCU callbacks. This can cause packets to use the old scheduler at the time when svc->sched_data is already freed after RCU grace period. Fix it by clearing the ptr early in ip_vs_unbind_scheduler(), before the done_service method schedules any RCU callbacks. Also, if the new scheduler fails to initialize when replacing the old scheduler, try to restore the old scheduler while still returning the error code. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260519015506.634185-1-rosenp%40gmail.com Fixes: 05f00505a89a ("ipvs: fix crash if scheduler is changed") Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ipvs: Update width of source for ip_vs_sync_conn_options

2023-05-24T16:36:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit e3478c68f6704638d08f437cbc552ca5970c151a ] In ip_vs_sync_conn_v0() copy is made to struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options. That structure looks like this: struct ip_vs_sync_conn_options { struct ip_vs_seq in_seq; struct ip_vs_seq out_seq; }; The source of the copy is the in_seq field of struct ip_vs_conn. Whose type is struct ip_vs_seq. Thus we can see that the source - is not as wide as the amount of data copied, which is the width of struct ip_vs_sync_conn_option. The copy is safe because the next field in is another struct ip_vs_seq. Make use of struct_group() to annotate this. Flagged by gcc-13 as: In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:254, from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11, from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:17, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/cpuid.h:62, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:19, from ./arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h:5, from ./include/linux/timex.h:67, from ./include/linux/time32.h:13, from ./include/linux/time.h:60, from ./include/linux/stat.h:19, from ./include/linux/module.h:13, from net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:38: In function 'fortify_memcpy_chk', inlined from 'ip_vs_sync_conn_v0' at net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:606:3: ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:529:25: error: call to '__read_overflow2_field' declared with attribute warning: detected read beyond size of field (2nd parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning] 529 | __read_overflow2_field(q_size_field, size); | Compile tested only. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Reviewed-by: Horatiu Vultur Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

netfilter: move handlers to net/ip_vs.h

2021-02-05T02:37:57+00:00

Fix the following compilation warnings: net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_tcp.c:147:1: warning: no previous prototype for 'tcp_snat_handler' [-Wmissing-prototypes] 147 | tcp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_vs_protocol *pp, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_udp.c:136:1: warning: no previous prototype for 'udp_snat_handler' [-Wmissing-prototypes] 136 | udp_snat_handler(struct sk_buff *skb, struct ip_vs_protocol *pp, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

ipvs: remove dependency on ip6_tables

2020-08-31T21:06:51+00:00

This dependency was added because ipv6_find_hdr was in iptables specific code but is no longer required Fixes: f8f626754ebe ("ipv6: Move ipv6_find_hdr() out of Netfilter code.") Fixes: 63dca2c0b0e7 ("ipvs: Fix faulty IPv6 extension header handling in IPVS") Signed-off-by: Yaroslav Bolyukin Acked-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: queue delayed work to expire no destination connections if expire_nodest_conn=1

2020-07-21T23:17:59+00:00

When expire_nodest_conn=1 and a destination is deleted, IPVS does not expire the existing connections until the next matching incoming packet. If there are many connection entries from a single client to a single destination, many packets may get dropped before all the connections are expired (more likely with lots of UDP traffic). An optimization can be made where upon deletion of a destination, IPVS queues up delayed work to immediately expire any connections with a deleted destination. This ensures any reused source ports from a client (within the IPVS timeouts) are scheduled to new real servers instead of silently dropped. Signed-off-by: Andrew Sy Kim Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso

ipvs: allow connection reuse for unconfirmed conntrack

2020-07-03T23:18:37+00:00

YangYuxi is reporting that connection reuse is causing one-second delay when SYN hits existing connection in TIME_WAIT state. Such delay was added to give time to expire both the IPVS connection and the corresponding conntrack. This was considered a rare case at that time but it is causing problem for some environments such as Kubernetes. As nf_conntrack_tcp_packet() can decide to release the conntrack in TIME_WAIT state and to replace it with a fresh NEW conntrack, we can use this to allow rescheduling just by tuning our check: if the conntrack is confirmed we can not schedule it to different real server and the one-second delay still applies but if new conntrack was created, we are free to select new real server without any delays. YangYuxi lists some of the problem reports: - One second connection delay in masquerading mode: https://marc.info/?t=151683118100004&r=1&w=2 - IPVS low throughput #70747 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/70747 - Apache Bench can fill up ipvs service proxy in seconds #544 https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router/issues/544 - Additional 1s latency in `host -> service IP -> pod` https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/90854 Fixes: f719e3754ee2 ("ipvs: drop first packet to redirect conntrack") Co-developed-by: YangYuxi Signed-off-by: YangYuxi Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso