[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: disable flow dump for Verbs flow

Xueming Li xuemingl at nvidia.com
Thu Sep 10 06:25:58 CEST 2020


There was a segment fault when dump flows with device argument of
dv_flow_en=0. In such case, Verbs flow engine was enabled and fdb
resources were not initialized. It's suggested to use mlx_fs_dump
for Verbs flow dump.

This patch adds verbs engine check, prints warning message and return
gracefully.

Cc: stable at dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c
index 4c29898203..5a28b80ee4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow.c
@@ -6268,6 +6268,11 @@ mlx5_flow_dev_dump(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 	struct mlx5_priv *priv = dev->data->dev_private;
 	struct mlx5_dev_ctx_shared *sh = priv->sh;
 
+	if (!priv->config.dv_flow_en) {
+		if (fputs("device dv flow disabled\n", file) <= 0)
+			return -errno;
+		return -ENOTSUP;
+	}
 	return mlx5_devx_cmd_flow_dump(sh->fdb_domain, sh->rx_domain,
 				       sh->tx_domain, file);
 }
-- 
2.25.1



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