[PATCH v2 1/7] net/ixgbe: add key length check in IPsec

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Wed Aug 19 14:32:33 CEST 2026


The cryptodev API does not check for user parameters being within the
bounds of what the driver supports. Currently, the only key size supported
by ixgbe is 16 bytes, so that is what we will check for. Add the check.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
Acked-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
index bdd34344e8..aaf657af5f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
@@ -384,6 +384,12 @@ ixgbe_crypto_create_session(void *device,
 	}
 	aead_xform = &conf->crypto_xform->aead;
 
+	/* Only 16-byte keys are supported. */
+	if (aead_xform->key.length != 16) {
+		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Unsupported key length %u", aead_xform->key.length);
+		return -ENOTSUP;
+	}
+
 	if (conf->ipsec.direction == RTE_SECURITY_IPSEC_SA_DIR_INGRESS) {
 		if (dev_conf->rxmode.offloads & RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_SECURITY) {
 			ic_session->op = IXGBE_OP_AUTHENTICATED_DECRYPTION;
-- 
2.52.0



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