[PATCH v3] net/ice: add MAC anti-spoof option

Anurag Mandal anurag.mandal at intel.com
Wed Dec 3 11:41:26 CET 2025


MAC anti-spoof is disabled by default to support VRRP advertisement
packets from a vsi of ice PF. There is no way to enable this security
check in the Tx direction itself.

This patch introduces devargs "mac-anti-spoof" to allow user to
enable MAC anti-spoof check. Enable MAC Anti-spoof check in the
Tx direction to automatically drop outgoing packets as TX-errors
when their destination MAC address matches one of the MAC
addresses assigned to that same NIC port.

Signed-off-by: Anurag Mandal <anurag.mandal at intel.com>
---
V3: Addressed Morten Brørup's feedback
 - set the default value of the devargs to 0
 - disabled MAC anti-spoof check by default
 - provided devargs option to enable the same
 - synchronized with source prune

V2: Addressed Bruce Richardson's feedback
 - changed devargs name to "mac-anti-spoof"
 - changed devargs member name to "mac_anti_spoof"
 - changed macro name to "ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG"
 - set the default value of the devargs to 1
 - added NOTICE log msg when MAC Anti-spoof is disabled
 - added more code comments to provide clarity
 - fixed typo error with ICE_AQ_VSI_SEC_FLAG_ENA_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF

 doc/guides/nics/ice.rst            | 11 +++++++++
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
index 6cc27cefa7..ee8d443c97 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
@@ -194,6 +194,17 @@ Runtime Configuration
 
     -a 80:00.0,source-prune=1
 
+- ``MAC Anti-spoof Enable`` (default ``0``)
+
+  Enable MAC Anti-spoof check in the Tx direction to drop outgoing
+  packets when their destination MAC address matches one of the
+  MAC addresses assigned to that same NIC port.
+
+  MAC Anti-spoof can be enabled by setting the devargs parameter ``mac-anti-spoof``,
+  for example::
+
+    -a 80:00.0,mac-anti-spoof=1
+
 - ``Protocol extraction for per queue``
 
   Configure the RX queues to do protocol extraction into mbuf for protocol
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
index c1d92435d1..fbecd00d35 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #define ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG    "ddp_load_sched_topo"
 #define ICE_TM_LEVELS_ARG         "tm_sched_levels"
 #define ICE_SOURCE_PRUNE_ARG      "source-prune"
+#define ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG    "mac-anti-spoof"
 #define ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE   "link_state_on_close"
 
 #define ICE_CYCLECOUNTER_MASK  0xffffffffffffffffULL
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ static const char * const ice_valid_args[] = {
 	ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG,
 	ICE_TM_LEVELS_ARG,
 	ICE_SOURCE_PRUNE_ARG,
+	ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG,
 	ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE,
 	NULL
 };
@@ -1761,13 +1763,39 @@ ice_setup_vsi(struct ice_pf *pf, enum ice_vsi_type type)
 		/* Source Prune */
 		if (ad->devargs.source_prune != 1) {
 			/* Disable source prune to support VRRP
-			 * when source-prune devarg is not set
+			 * when source-prune devargs is not set
 			 */
 			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags =
 				ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_LOCAL_LB;
-			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags |=
+		} else { /* Enable Source Prune in Rx */
+			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags =
 				ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_SRC_PRUNE;
 		}
+		/* MAC Anti-spoof */
+		/* By default, Source Prune in Rx and
+		 * MAC Anti-spoof check in Tx are disabled.
+		 *
+		 * Source Prune is disabled by setting local
+		 * loopback with ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_LOCAL_LB
+		 * flag in the Rx direction.
+		 *
+		 * MAC Anti-spoof check can be disabled by
+		 * setting Tx loopback with
+		 * ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_ALLOW_LB flag in the
+		 * Tx direction.
+		 */
+		if (ad->devargs.mac_anti_spoof != 1) {
+			/* Disable mac anti-spoof check in the
+			 * Tx direction to avoid getting dropped
+			 * as TX-errors for VRRP support when
+			 * mac-anti-spoof devargs is not set
+			 */
+			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags |=
+				ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_ALLOW_LB;
+		} else { /* Enable MAC Anti-spoof check in Tx */
+			vsi_ctx.info.sec_flags =
+				ICE_AQ_VSI_SEC_FLAG_ENA_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF;
+		}
 		cfg = ICE_AQ_VSI_PROP_SW_VALID;
 		vsi_ctx.info.valid_sections |= rte_cpu_to_le_16(cfg);
 		vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags2 = ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_LAN_ENA;
@@ -2467,6 +2495,11 @@ static int ice_parse_devargs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	if (ret)
 		goto bail;
 
+	ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG,
+				 &parse_bool, &ad->devargs.mac_anti_spoof);
+	if (ret)
+		goto bail;
+
 	ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE,
 				 &parse_link_state_on_close, &ad->devargs.link_state_on_close);
 
@@ -7732,6 +7765,7 @@ RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PARAM_STRING(net_ice,
 			      ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG "=<0|1>"
 			      ICE_TM_LEVELS_ARG "=<N>"
 			      ICE_SOURCE_PRUNE_ARG "=<0|1>"
+			      ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG "=<0|1>"
 			      ICE_RX_LOW_LATENCY_ARG "=<0|1>"
 			      ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE "=<down|up|initial>");
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h
index 72ed65f13b..5fe4688d57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ struct ice_devargs {
 	uint8_t ddp_load_sched;
 	uint8_t tm_exposed_levels;
 	uint8_t source_prune;
+	uint8_t mac_anti_spoof;
 	int link_state_on_close;
 	int xtr_field_offs;
 	uint8_t xtr_flag_offs[PROTO_XTR_MAX];
-- 
2.34.1



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