[PATCH] net/mlx5: fix flex tunnel validation

Dariusz Sosnowski dsosnowski at nvidia.com
Wed Apr 30 13:03:31 CEST 2025


Pattern template validation did not take into account
the configured tunnel mode of the flex item.
This caused validation failures for templates with
flex item registered as tunnel headers.
Specifically, any item after such flex item was still considered
as outer header, not an inner.

This patch fixes the flex item validation,
by correctly updating recognized items bitmask depending
on flex item mode.

Fixes: 80c676259a04 ("net/mlx5: validate HWS template items")
Cc: getelson at nvidia.com
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
index 20d38ce414..723652a6ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
@@ -8867,12 +8867,21 @@ flow_hw_pattern_validate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 				    MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_INNER_IPV6_ROUTING_EXT :
 				    MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_OUTER_IPV6_ROUTING_EXT;
 			break;
-		case RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_FLEX:
-			/* match mlx5dr_definer_conv_items_to_hl() */
-			last_item = tunnel ?
-				    MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_INNER_FLEX :
-				    MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_OUTER_FLEX;
+		case RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_FLEX: {
+			enum rte_flow_item_flex_tunnel_mode tunnel_mode = FLEX_TUNNEL_MODE_SINGLE;
+
+			ret = mlx5_flex_get_tunnel_mode(item, &tunnel_mode);
+			if (ret < 0)
+				return rte_flow_error_set(error, -ret, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM,
+							  item, "Unable to get flex item mode");
+			if (tunnel_mode == FLEX_TUNNEL_MODE_TUNNEL)
+				last_item = MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_FLEX_TUNNEL;
+			else
+				last_item = tunnel ?
+					    MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_INNER_FLEX :
+					    MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_OUTER_FLEX;
 			break;
+		}
 		case RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_RANDOM:
 			last_item = MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_RANDOM;
 			break;
-- 
2.39.5



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