[PATCH v3] net/mlx5: add validation for indirect actions

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,


On 14/05/2026 10:33 PM, Rayane Boussanni wrote:
> This patch implements missing validation logic for RSS and Connection
> Tracking (ConnTrack) indirect actions in the Hardware Steering (HWS)
> flow engine.
> 
> Previously, these actions were accepted without being validated
> against hardware capabilities, which could lead to unexpected behavior
> when applying flow rules. The specialist validation functions
> (mlx5_hw_validate_action_rss and mlx5_hw_validate_action_conntrack)
> already existed but were not wired up to the indirect action handler.
> 
> The signature of flow_hw_validate_action_indirect was updated to
> include the actions template attributes (attr), allowing it to pass
> the necessary traffic direction context (ingress/egress/transfer)
> to the underlying validation specialists. For indirect RSS, only the
> template attributes are validated, as the RSS configuration itself is
> already validated when the indirect action handle is created.
> 
> Reported-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski at nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rayane Boussanni <rboussanni at gmail.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - Fix segfault reported by Dariusz Sosnowski when an actions template
>    references an indirect RSS action. v2 called
>    mlx5_hw_validate_action_rss() on the indirect path, which
>    dereferences action->conf as struct rte_flow_action_rss. For indirect
>    actions action->conf is an opaque action handle, not an RSS config.
>    Add bool is_indirect to mlx5_hw_validate_action_rss() so the indirect
>    path validates only the template attributes
>    (ingress/egress/transfer).
> 
>   drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,


Kindest regards
Raslan Darawsheh