Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net/sched: act_ct: Fix promotion of offloaded unreplied tuple

[Florian Westphal]

Paul Blakey <paulb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently UNREPLIED and UNASSURED connections are added to the nf flow
> table. This causes the following connection packets to be processed
> by the flow table which then skips conntrack_in(), and thus such the
> connections will remain UNREPLIED and UNASSURED even if reply traffic
> is then seen. Even still, the unoffloaded reply packets are the ones
> triggering hardware update from new to established state, and if
> there aren't any to triger an update and/or previous update was
> missed, hardware can get out of sync with sw and still mark
> packets as new.

Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>