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[PATCH net-next 1/3] net/mlx5: Relax capability check for eswitch query paths

From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-05-01 04:42:32
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml
Subsystem: mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Moshe Shemesh <redacted>

Several eswitch functions that only query other functions' HCA
capabilities or read cached vport state are guarded by the
vhca_resource_manager capability. This capability is required for
set_hca_cap operations but query_hca_cap of other functions only
requires the vport_group_manager capability.

Relax the capability check from vhca_resource_manager to
vport_group_manager in the following query-only paths:
- mlx5_esw_vport_caps_get() - queries other function general caps
- esw_ipsec_vf_query_generic() - queries other function ipsec cap
- mlx5_devlink_port_fn_migratable_get() - reads cached vport state
- mlx5_devlink_port_fn_roce_get() - reads cached vport state
- mlx5_devlink_port_fn_max_io_eqs_get() - queries other function caps
- mlx5_esw_vport_enable/disable() - vhca_id map/unmap

Functions that perform also set_hca_cap (migratable_set, roce_set,
max_io_eqs_set, esw_ipsec_vf_set_generic, esw_ipsec_vf_set_bytype)
retain the vhca_resource_manager requirement.

Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Akiva Goldberger <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/ipsec.c    |  2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c  |  6 +++---
 .../ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c | 14 ++++++++------
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/ipsec.c
index 8b12c3ae0cf7..4811b60ea430 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/ipsec.c
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ static int esw_ipsec_vf_query_generic(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, u16 vport_num,
 	void *hca_cap, *query_cap;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, vhca_resource_manager))
+	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, vport_group_manager))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	if (!mlx5_esw_ipsec_vf_offload_supported(dev)) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
index 66a773a99876..e0eafcf0c52a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
@@ -806,7 +806,7 @@ static int mlx5_esw_vport_caps_get(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, struct mlx5_vport *
 	void *hca_caps;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vhca_resource_manager))
+	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vport_group_manager))
 		return 0;
 
 	query_ctx = kzalloc(query_out_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ int mlx5_esw_vport_enable(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, struct mlx5_vport *vport,
 		vport->info.trusted = true;
 
 	if (!mlx5_esw_is_manager_vport(esw, vport_num) &&
-	    MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vhca_resource_manager)) {
+	    MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vport_group_manager)) {
 		ret = mlx5_esw_vport_vhca_id_map(esw, vport);
 		if (ret)
 			goto err_vhca_mapping;
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ void mlx5_esw_vport_disable(struct mlx5_eswitch *esw, struct mlx5_vport *vport)
 		arm_vport_context_events_cmd(esw->dev, vport_num, 0);
 
 	if (!mlx5_esw_is_manager_vport(esw, vport_num) &&
-	    MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vhca_resource_manager))
+	    MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vport_group_manager))
 		mlx5_esw_vport_vhca_id_unmap(esw, vport);
 
 	if (vport->vport != MLX5_VPORT_HOST_PF &&
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
index 69ddf56e2fc9..392d8f364db6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c
@@ -4677,8 +4677,9 @@ int mlx5_devlink_port_fn_migratable_get(struct devlink_port *port, bool *is_enab
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
-	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vhca_resource_manager)) {
-		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Device doesn't support VHCA management");
+	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vport_group_manager)) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+				   "Device doesn't support vport group management");
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
@@ -4753,8 +4754,9 @@ int mlx5_devlink_port_fn_roce_get(struct devlink_port *port, bool *is_enabled,
 	struct mlx5_eswitch *esw = mlx5_devlink_eswitch_nocheck_get(port->devlink);
 	struct mlx5_vport *vport = mlx5_devlink_port_vport_get(port);
 
-	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vhca_resource_manager)) {
-		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Device doesn't support VHCA management");
+	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vport_group_manager)) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
+				   "Device doesn't support vport group management");
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
@@ -5076,9 +5078,9 @@ mlx5_devlink_port_fn_max_io_eqs_get(struct devlink_port *port, u32 *max_io_eqs,
 	int err;
 
 	esw = mlx5_devlink_eswitch_nocheck_get(port->devlink);
-	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vhca_resource_manager)) {
+	if (!MLX5_CAP_GEN(esw->dev, vport_group_manager)) {
 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack,
-				   "Device doesn't support VHCA management");
+				   "Device doesn't support vport group management");
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
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