Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2022-03-31

Re: [PATCH net] ixgbe: ensure IPsec VF<->PF compatibility

From: Shannon Nelson <hidden>
Date: 2022-03-30 16:13:40
Also in: intel-wired-lan, lkml

On 3/30/22 4:01 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>

The VF driver can forward any IPsec flags and such makes the function
is not extendable and prone to backward/forward incompatibility.

If new software runs on VF, it won't know that PF configured something
completely different as it "knows" only XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND flag.

Fixes: eda0333ac293 ("ixgbe: add VF IPsec management")
Reviewed-by: Raed Salem <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
---
There is no simple fix for this VF/PF incompatibility as long as FW
doesn't filter/decline unsupported options when convey mailbox from VF
to PF.
---
  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
index e596e1a9fc75..236f244e3f65 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
@@ -903,7 +903,9 @@ int ixgbe_ipsec_vf_add_sa(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter, u32 *msgbuf, u32 vf)
  	/* Tx IPsec offload doesn't seem to work on this
  	 * device, so block these requests for now.
  	 */
-	if (!(sam->flags & XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND)) {
+	sam->flags = sam->flags & ~XFRM_OFFLOAD_IPV6;
+	if (!(sam->flags & XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND) ||
+	    sam->flags & ~XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND) {
So after stripping the IPV6 flag, you're checking to be sure that 
INBOUND is the only flag enabled, right?
Could you use
     if (sam->flags != XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND) {
instead?

sln
  		err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
  		goto err_out;
  	}
  
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