[PATCH v2 14/25] net/i40e: use common action checks for tunnel

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Mon Mar 16 11:52:39 CET 2026


Use the common flow action checking parsing infrastructure for checking
flow actions for flow director tunnel filter. As a result, more stringent
checks are performed against parametersm specifically the following:

- reject NULL conf for VF action (instead of attempt at NULL dereference)
- second action was expected to be QUEUE but if it wasn't it was ignored

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c | 104 +++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c
index 3470f35a20..88cdc59429 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_flow.c
@@ -1104,15 +1104,6 @@ static struct i40e_valid_pattern i40e_supported_patterns[] = {
 	{ pattern_fdir_ipv6_sctp, i40e_flow_parse_l4_cloud_filter },
 };
 
-#define NEXT_ITEM_OF_ACTION(act, actions, index)                        \
-	do {                                                            \
-		act = actions + index;                                  \
-		while (act->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VOID) {        \
-			index++;                                        \
-			act = actions + index;                          \
-		}                                                       \
-	} while (0)
-
 /* Find the first VOID or non-VOID item pointer */
 static const struct rte_flow_item *
 i40e_find_first_item(const struct rte_flow_item *item, bool is_void)
@@ -2539,61 +2530,62 @@ i40e_flow_parse_tunnel_action(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 			      struct i40e_tunnel_filter_conf *filter)
 {
 	struct i40e_pf *pf = I40E_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_PF(dev->data->dev_private);
-	const struct rte_flow_action *act;
 	const struct rte_flow_action_queue *act_q;
-	const struct rte_flow_action_vf *act_vf;
-	uint32_t index = 0;
+	struct ci_flow_actions parsed_actions = {0};
+	struct ci_flow_actions_check_param ac_param = {
+		.allowed_types = (enum rte_flow_action_type[]) {
+			RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_QUEUE,
+			RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PF,
+			RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VF,
+			RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END
+		},
+		.max_actions = 2,
+	};
+	const struct rte_flow_action *first, *second;
+	int ret;
 
-	/* Check if the first non-void action is PF or VF. */
-	NEXT_ITEM_OF_ACTION(act, actions, index);
-	if (act->type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PF &&
-	    act->type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VF) {
-		rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-				   act, "Not supported action.");
-		return -rte_errno;
-	}
+	ret = ci_flow_check_actions(actions, &ac_param, &parsed_actions, error);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+	first = parsed_actions.actions[0];
+	/* can be NULL */
+	second = parsed_actions.actions[1];
 
-	if (act->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VF) {
-		act_vf = act->conf;
-		filter->vf_id = act_vf->id;
+	/* first action must be PF or VF */
+	if (first->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_VF) {
+		const struct rte_flow_action_vf *vf = first->conf;
+		if (vf->id >= pf->vf_num) {
+			rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+					RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION, first,
+					"Invalid VF ID for tunnel filter");
+			return -rte_errno;
+		}
+		filter->vf_id = vf->id;
 		filter->is_to_vf = 1;
-		if (filter->vf_id >= pf->vf_num) {
-			rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
-				   RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-				   act, "Invalid VF ID for tunnel filter");
-			return -rte_errno;
-		}
+	} else if (first->type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_PF) {
+		return rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+					  RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION, first,
+					  "Unsupported action");
 	}
 
-	/* Check if the next non-void item is QUEUE */
-	index++;
-	NEXT_ITEM_OF_ACTION(act, actions, index);
-	if (act->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_QUEUE) {
-		act_q = act->conf;
-		filter->queue_id = act_q->index;
-		if ((!filter->is_to_vf) &&
-		    (filter->queue_id >= pf->dev_data->nb_rx_queues)) {
-			rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
-				   RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-				   act, "Invalid queue ID for tunnel filter");
-			return -rte_errno;
-		} else if (filter->is_to_vf &&
-			   (filter->queue_id >= pf->vf_nb_qps)) {
-			rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
-				   RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-				   act, "Invalid queue ID for tunnel filter");
-			return -rte_errno;
-		}
-	}
+	/* check if second action is QUEUE */
+	if (second == NULL)
+		return 0;
 
-	/* Check if the next non-void item is END */
-	index++;
-	NEXT_ITEM_OF_ACTION(act, actions, index);
-	if (act->type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END) {
-		rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-				   act, "Not supported action.");
-		return -rte_errno;
+	act_q = second->conf;
+	/* check queue ID for PF flow */
+	if (!filter->is_to_vf && act_q->index >= pf->dev_data->nb_rx_queues) {
+		return rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+				RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION_CONF, act_q,
+				"Invalid queue ID for tunnel filter");
+	}
+	/* check queue ID for VF flow */
+	if (filter->is_to_vf && act_q->index >= pf->vf_nb_qps) {
+		return rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+				RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION_CONF, act_q,
+				"Invalid queue ID for tunnel filter");
 	}
+	filter->queue_id = act_q->index;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.47.3



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