[ovs-dev] [net-next] netfiler: conntrack: Add the option to set ct tcp flag - BE_LIBERAL per-ct basis.

[Florian Westphal]

Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 3:06 AM Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de> wrote:
> Thanks for the comments. I actually tried this approach first, but it
> doesn't seem to work.
> I noticed that for the committed connections, the ct tcp flag -
> IP_CT_TCP_FLAG_BE_LIBERAL is
> not set when nf_conntrack_in() calls resolve_normal_ct().

Yes, it won't be set during nf_conntrack_in, thats why I suggested
to do it before confirming the connection.

> Would you expect that the tcp ct flags should have been preserved once
> the connection is committed ?

Yes, they are preserved when you set them after nf_conntrack_in(), else
we would already have trouble with hw flow offloading which needs to
turn off window checks as well.