[PATCH 23.11 1/2] net/mlx5/hws: fix ESP header match in strict mode

Viacheslav Ovsiienko viacheslavo at nvidia.com
Wed Nov 12 10:12:44 CET 2025


[ upstream commit 4237d1efa6e3f7f18ba809aa2073640fb034ae8d ]

The pattern like "eth / ipv6 / esp / end" matched on any IPv6
packet in strict mode, because there was no implicit match on the
IP.proto forced.

This patch adds the implicit match on IP.proto with value 50 (ESP)
and adds implicit match on UDP.dport with value 4500 for the case
ESP over UDP.

Fixes: 81cf20a25abf ("net/mlx5/hws: support match on ESP item")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_definer.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_definer.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_definer.c
index 69a99d6785..93d40eb85f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_definer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/hws/mlx5dr_definer.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #define ETH_TYPE_IPV4_VXLAN	0x0800
 #define ETH_TYPE_IPV6_VXLAN	0x86DD
 #define UDP_GTPU_PORT   2152
+#define UDP_ESP_PORT	4500
 #define UDP_VXLAN_PORT  4789
 #define UDP_PORT_MPLS   6635
 #define UDP_ROCEV2_PORT	4791
@@ -183,6 +184,8 @@ struct mlx5dr_definer_conv_data {
 	X(SET_BE32,	gre_opt_seq,		v->sequence.sequence,	rte_flow_item_gre_opt) \
 	X(SET_BE16,	gre_opt_checksum,	v->checksum_rsvd.checksum,	rte_flow_item_gre_opt) \
 	X(SET,		meter_color,		rte_col_2_mlx5_col(v->color),	rte_flow_item_meter_color) \
+	X(SET,		ipsec_protocol,		IPPROTO_ESP,		rte_flow_item_esp) \
+	X(SET,		ipsec_udp_port,		UDP_ESP_PORT,		rte_flow_item_esp) \
 	X(SET_BE32,     ipsec_spi,              v->hdr.spi,             rte_flow_item_esp) \
 	X(SET_BE32,     ipsec_sequence_number,  v->hdr.seq,             rte_flow_item_esp) \
 	X(SET,		ib_l4_udp_port,		UDP_ROCEV2_PORT,	rte_flow_item_ib_bth) \
@@ -2258,6 +2261,32 @@ mlx5dr_definer_conv_item_esp(struct mlx5dr_definer_conv_data *cd,
 	const struct rte_flow_item_esp *m = item->mask;
 	struct mlx5dr_definer_fc *fc;
 
+	/* To match on ESP we must match on ip_protocol and optionally on l4_dport */
+	if (!cd->relaxed) {
+		bool over_udp;
+
+		fc = &cd->fc[DR_CALC_FNAME(IP_PROTOCOL, false)];
+		over_udp = fc->tag_set == &mlx5dr_definer_udp_protocol_set;
+
+		if (over_udp) {
+			fc = &cd->fc[DR_CALC_FNAME(L4_DPORT, false)];
+			if (!fc->tag_set) {
+				fc->item_idx = item_idx;
+				fc->tag_mask_set = &mlx5dr_definer_ones_set;
+				fc->tag_set = &mlx5dr_definer_ipsec_udp_port_set;
+				DR_CALC_SET(fc, eth_l4, destination_port, false);
+			}
+		} else {
+			fc = &cd->fc[DR_CALC_FNAME(IP_PROTOCOL, false)];
+			if (!fc->tag_set) {
+				fc->item_idx = item_idx;
+				fc->tag_set = &mlx5dr_definer_ipsec_protocol_set;
+				fc->tag_mask_set = &mlx5dr_definer_ones_set;
+				DR_CALC_SET(fc, eth_l3, protocol_next_header, false);
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (!m)
 		return 0;
 	if (m->hdr.spi) {
-- 
2.34.1



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