netfilter: flowtable: add function to invoke garbage collection immediately

Expose nf_flow_table_gc_run() to force a garbage collector run from the
offload infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
index 765ac779bfc8f..60fc1e1b71821 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_core.c
@@ -437,12 +437,17 @@ static void nf_flow_offload_gc_step(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table,
 	}
 }
 
+void nf_flow_table_gc_run(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table)
+{
+	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+}
+
 static void nf_flow_offload_work_gc(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct nf_flowtable *flow_table;
 
 	flow_table = container_of(work, struct nf_flowtable, gc_work.work);
-	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+	nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
 	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &flow_table->gc_work, HZ);
 }
 
@@ -601,10 +606,11 @@ void nf_flow_table_free(struct nf_flowtable *flow_table)
 
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&flow_table->gc_work);
 	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_table_do_cleanup, NULL);
-	nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+	nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
 	nf_flow_table_offload_flush(flow_table);
 	if (nf_flowtable_hw_offload(flow_table))
-		nf_flow_table_iterate(flow_table, nf_flow_offload_gc_step, NULL);
+		nf_flow_table_gc_run(flow_table);
+
 	rhashtable_destroy(&flow_table->rhashtable);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nf_flow_table_free);