[PATCH] net/i40e: fix simple Tx prepare rejecting tunnel type flags

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Apr 3 15:36:15 CEST 2026


On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:14:59AM +0000, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> The tunnel type bits in ol_flags (RTE_MBUF_F_TX_TUNNEL_*) identify
> the encapsulation protocol used by a packet. An application may set
> these to indicate tunnel type without requesting any tunnel offload.
> The simple Tx path was incorrectly treating these flags as unsupported
> offload requests and rejecting the packet.
> 
> Add RTE_MBUF_F_TX_TUNNEL_MASK to the set of permitted flags in the
> simple Tx supported offloads mask to permit tunnel flags in the mbuf.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 1342
> Fixes: 146ffa81d05e ("net/i40e: add Tx preparation for simple Tx datapath")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/intel/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks,
/Bruce


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