[PATCH v4 1/3] net/txgbe: fix L2 tunnel error on flow create

Zhang Tengfei zhtfdev at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 20:30:09 CEST 2026


txgbe_flow_create() continues to RSS parsing when L2 tunnel filter
add fails. An E-tag VF/PF rule cannot match RSS, so the original
error is overwritten.

Fail the create on L2 add failure, same as ethertype and SYN.

Fixes: 5c2352b9ece6 ("net/txgbe: support creating consistent filter")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Zhang Tengfei <zhtfdev at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/txgbe/txgbe_flow.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/txgbe/txgbe_flow.c b/drivers/net/txgbe/txgbe_flow.c
index eaeb973c91..76191a7c2d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/txgbe/txgbe_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/txgbe/txgbe_flow.c
@@ -3449,6 +3449,7 @@ txgbe_flow_create(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 			flow->filter_type = RTE_ETH_FILTER_L2_TUNNEL;
 			return flow;
 		}
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	memset(&rss_conf, 0, sizeof(struct txgbe_rte_flow_rss_conf));
-- 
2.53.0



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