[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix E-Switch egress mirror flow validation

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 10:29 AM
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <matan at nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact-Thomas
> Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>;
> stable at dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix E-Switch egress mirror flow validation
> 
> The stored metadata in all registers C were lost in E-Switch egress
> mirroring flows due to HW limitation. The register C0 keeps the
> source vport index that also was used as one of the flow matcher.
> 
> While sample action and jump action (jump to table X) was in the
> E-Switch egress flow, the flow in the next table X wasn't hit since
> source vport value lost.
> 
> The modify actions after sample action should be applied to the packet
> on normal path, not to the sampled packet. In order to support this
> mlx5 PMD splits the flow into sub flows and jump action is engaged
> implicitly, causing malfunction due to registers corruption.
> 
> This patch adds the validation the for E-Switch mirroring jump egress
> flow, and checks for this hidden jump as well and reject the flows with
> modify actions after sampling.
> 
> Fixes: 6a951567c159 ("net/mlx5: support E-Switch mirroring and jump in one
> flow")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>
> ---
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,


Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh