net: openvswitch: Be liberal in tcp conntrack.
There is no easy way to distinguish if a conntracked tcp packet is marked invalid because of tcp_in_window() check error or because it doesn't belong to an existing connection. With this patch, openvswitch sets liberal tcp flag for the established sessions so that out of window packets are not marked invalid. A helper function - nf_ct_set_tcp_be_liberal(nf_conn) is added which sets this flag for both the directions of the nf_conn. Suggested-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq@redhat.com> Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201116130126.3065077-1-nusiddiq@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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