Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2026-02-06

Re: [PATCH] [net-next] net/mlx5e: fix ip6_dst_lookup link failure

From: Jianbo Liu <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-06 09:56:34
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml


On 2/4/2026 9:00 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Changing mlx5 to call ip6_dst_lookup() means it now fails to link
when IPv6 is a loadable module but ipsec support is built-in:

ipsec.c:(.text+0x1061): undefined reference to `ip6_dst_lookup'

Add a Kconfig dependency that removes avoids this configuration.

Fixes: e35d7da8dd9e ("net/mlx5e: Use ip6_dst_lookup instead of ipv6_dst_lookup_flow for MAC init")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig
index 9cf394c66939..c298efe93f97 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/Kconfig
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ config MLX5_EN_IPSEC
  	depends on MLX5_CORE_EN
  	depends on XFRM_OFFLOAD
  	depends on INET_ESP_OFFLOAD || INET6_ESP_OFFLOAD
+	depends on IPV6!=m || MLX5_CORE=m
Thanks for the fix.
I received a report for this same error here: 
https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512261850.P5Jp5BSz-lkp@intel.com/ (local)

We were about to send a fix ourselves, it is to simply add:
   depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
Is there a specific reason to prefer "depends on IPV6!=m || 
MLX5_CORE=m"? To me, the IPV6 || !IPV6 syntax seems a bit cleaner.

Thanks!
Jianbo
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  	  Build support for IPsec cryptography-offload acceleration in the NIC.
  
  
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