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[PATCH net] net/mlx5e: Advertise MACsec offload only when supported

From: Ralf Lici <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-15 08:55:56
Also in: stable
Subsystem: mellanox ethernet driver (mlx5e), mellanox ethernet innova drivers, mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Saeed Mahameed, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Leon Romanovsky, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Commit 339ccec8d43d ("net/mlx5: Enable MACsec offload feature for VLAN
interface") added NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC unconditionally to vlan_features so
that VLAN devices could inherit MACsec offload support.

mlx5e_build_nic_netdev subsequently copies vlan_features into
hw_features and features. As a result, all mlx5e NIC netdevices
advertise MACsec hardware offload, even when the firmware does not
support it and the driver does not install macsec_ops.

Move the vlan_features assignment into mlx5e_macsec_build_netdev, where
NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC is enabled only after the device capabilities have
been validated. This preserves MACsec-over-VLAN support on capable
devices without advertising it on unsupported hardware.

Fixes: 339ccec8d43d ("net/mlx5: Enable MACsec offload feature for VLAN interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Lici <redacted>
---
The issue was reproduced on a ConnectX-4 Lx: ethtool -k reported
"macsec-hw-offload: on", while creating a MACsec interface with "offload
mac" failed with EOPNOTSUPP.

 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c | 1 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c         | 1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
index daff53ba7d09..9a3850457bd2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/macsec.c
@@ -1724,6 +1724,7 @@ void mlx5e_macsec_build_netdev(struct mlx5e_priv *priv)
 	mlx5_core_dbg(priv->mdev, "mlx5e: MACsec acceleration enabled\n");
 	netdev->macsec_ops = &macsec_offload_ops;
 	netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC;
+	netdev->vlan_features |= NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC;
 	netif_keep_dst(netdev);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
index f0407a850ea8..cb8ebca58ce8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c
@@ -5851,7 +5851,6 @@ static void mlx5e_build_nic_netdev(struct net_device *netdev)
 
 	netdev->vlan_features    |= NETIF_F_SG;
 	netdev->vlan_features    |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;
-	netdev->vlan_features    |= NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC;
 	netdev->vlan_features    |= NETIF_F_GRO;
 	netdev->vlan_features    |= NETIF_F_TSO;
 	netdev->vlan_features    |= NETIF_F_TSO6;
base-commit: 24ef02f934eeb48830cff6b739abc3c62b1d107b
-- 
2.55.0
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