[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix L3 encapsulation flow validation

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Matan Azrad
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 5:32 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>; Dekel Peled
> <dekelp at mellanox.com>; stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix L3 encapsulation flow validation
> 
> In order to configure L3 encapsulation\decapsulation flow to mlx5
> devices, 2 actions should be added to the flow actions list:
> RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RAW_DECAP and
> RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RAW_ENCAP.
> 
> One of the validations for this scenario is to check that modify actions
> is not done before the L3 decapsulation, because it doesn't make sense
> to decapsulate a modified data.
> 
> Wrongly, this check was done for the case of L3 encapsulation what
> causes a validation failure in modify + L3 encapsulation flow.
> 
> Ignore this check in case of L3 encapsulation.
> 
> Fixes: 4bb14c83df95 ("net/mlx5: support modify header using Direct Verbs")
> Cc: dekelp at mellanox.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com>
> ---


Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh