linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.19 123/361] ixgbe: disallow IPsec Tx offload when in SR-IOV mode

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Date:   Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:17:50 -0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>,
        Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@...el.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.19 123/361] ixgbe: disallow IPsec Tx offload when in SR-IOV mode

4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>

[ Upstream commit 47b6f50077e68bcd544f657526dad4bfdce7e87d ]

There seems to be a problem in the x540's internal switch wherein if SR-IOV
mode is enabled and an offloaded IPsec packet is sent to a local VF,
the packet is silently dropped.  This might never be a problem as it is
somewhat a corner case, but if someone happens to be using IPsec offload
from the PF to a VF that just happens to get migrated to the local box,
communication will mysteriously fail.

Not good.

A simple way to protect from this is to simply not allow any IPsec offloads
for outgoing packets when num_vfs != 0.  This doesn't help any offloads that
were created before SR-IOV was enabled, but we'll get to that later.

Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
@@ -676,6 +676,9 @@ static int ixgbe_ipsec_add_sa(struct xfr
 	} else {
 		struct tx_sa tsa;

+		if (adapter->num_vfs)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 		/* find the first unused index */
 		ret = ixgbe_ipsec_find_empty_idx(ipsec, false);
 		if (ret < 0) {