patch 'net/ixgbe: fix potential null dereference with IPsec config' has been queued to stable release 24.11.5

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 24.11.5

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 02/22/26. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Also note that after the patch there's a diff of the upstream commit vs the
patch applied to the branch. This will indicate if there was any rebasing
needed to apply to the stable branch. If there were code changes for rebasing
(ie: not only metadata diffs), please double check that the rebase was
correctly done.

Queued patches are on a temporary branch at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable

This queued commit can be viewed at:
https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable/commit/d54b27113bc23028bb362d16a2b7f7054d78b8c7

Thanks.

Luca Boccassi

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>From d54b27113bc23028bb362d16a2b7f7054d78b8c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:10:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net/ixgbe: fix potential null dereference with IPsec config

[ upstream commit eb3de5f328afbff3a1abd2184052355b4fe4a981 ]

When parsing IPsec flows, we access the `conf` pointer unconditionally,
even though it might be NULL. Fix by adding the check.

Fixes: 9a0752f498d2 ("net/ixgbe: enable inline IPsec")

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
Acked-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
index 3808137837..2b1e56f3c4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
@@ -221,6 +221,13 @@ cons_parse_ntuple_filter(const struct rte_flow_attr *attr,
 	act = next_no_void_action(actions, NULL);
 	if (act->type == RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SECURITY) {
 		const void *conf = act->conf;
+
+		if (conf == NULL) {
+			rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
+				RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION_CONF,
+				act, "NULL security conf.");
+			return -rte_errno;
+		}
 		/* check if the next not void item is END */
 		act = next_no_void_action(actions, act);
 		if (act->type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END) {
-- 
2.47.3

---
  Diff of the applied patch vs upstream commit (please double-check if non-empty:
---
--- -	2026-02-20 14:55:46.984021656 +0000
+++ 0098-net-ixgbe-fix-potential-null-dereference-with-IPsec-.patch	2026-02-20 14:55:43.352193583 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-From eb3de5f328afbff3a1abd2184052355b4fe4a981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From d54b27113bc23028bb362d16a2b7f7054d78b8c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
@@ -5,0 +6,2 @@
+[ upstream commit eb3de5f328afbff3a1abd2184052355b4fe4a981 ]
+
@@ -10 +11,0 @@
-Cc: stable at dpdk.org
@@ -16 +17 @@
- drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c | 7 +++++++
+ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c | 7 +++++++
@@ -19,4 +20,4 @@
-diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
-index 90072e757e..81b983ce69 100644
---- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
-+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
+diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
+index 3808137837..2b1e56f3c4 100644
+--- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
++++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c