[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ixgbe: fail to create xfrm offload of IPsec tunnel mode SA

Antony Antony antony at phenome.org
Wed Oct 14 14:17:48 UTC 2020


Based on talks and indirect references ixgbe IPsec offlod do not
support IPsec tunnel mode offload. It can only support IPsec transport
mode offload. Now explicitly fail when creating non transport mode SA
 with offload to avoid false performance expectations.

Fixes: 63a67fe229ea ("ixgbe: add ipsec offload add and remove SA")
Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony at phenome.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 5 +++++
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c     | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
index eca73526ac86..54d47265a7ac 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
@@ -575,6 +575,11 @@ static int ixgbe_ipsec_add_sa(struct xfrm_state *xs)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (xs->props.mode != XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT) {
+		netdev_err(dev, "Unsupported mode for ipsec offload\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (ixgbe_ipsec_check_mgmt_ip(xs)) {
 		netdev_err(dev, "IPsec IP addr clash with mgmt filters\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c
index 5170dd9d8705..caaea2c920a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c
@@ -272,6 +272,11 @@ static int ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa(struct xfrm_state *xs)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (xs->props.mode != XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT) {
+		netdev_err(dev, "Unsupported mode for ipsec offload\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (xs->xso.flags & XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND) {
 		struct rx_sa rsa;
 
-- 
2.21.3



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