linux-kernel - [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: psp, avoid 'accel' NULL pointer dereference

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Message-ID: <1760511923-890650-1-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:05:23 +0300
From: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David
 S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>,
	"Mark Bloch" <mbloch@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, Moshe Shemesh
	<moshe@...dia.com>, Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>, Cosmin Ratiu
	<cratiu@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net/mlx5e: psp, avoid 'accel' NULL pointer dereference

From: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>

The 'accel' parameter of mlx5e_txwqe_build_eseg_csum() and the similar
'state' parameter of mlx5e_accel_tx_ids_len() were NULL when called
from mlx5i_sq_xmit() and were causing kernel panics from that context.

Fix that by passing in a local empty mlx5e_accel_tx_state variable, thus
guaranteeing that 'accel' is never NULL. Also remove an unnecessary
check from mlx5e_tx_wqe_inline_mode().

Fixes: e5a1861a298e ("net/mlx5e: Implement PSP Tx data path")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@...dia.com>
Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tx.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tx.c
index b7227afcb51d..2702b3885f06 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tx.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ mlx5e_tx_wqe_inline_mode(struct mlx5e_txqsq *sq, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	u8 mode;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MLX5_EN_TLS
-	if (accel && accel->tls.tls_tisn)
+	if (accel->tls.tls_tisn)
 		return MLX5_INLINE_MODE_TCP_UDP;
 #endif
 
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ void mlx5i_sq_xmit(struct mlx5e_txqsq *sq, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct mlx5e_tx_attr attr;
 	struct mlx5i_tx_wqe *wqe;
 
+	struct mlx5e_accel_tx_state accel = {};
 	struct mlx5_wqe_datagram_seg *datagram;
 	struct mlx5_wqe_ctrl_seg *cseg;
 	struct mlx5_wqe_eth_seg  *eseg;
@@ -992,7 +993,7 @@ void mlx5i_sq_xmit(struct mlx5e_txqsq *sq, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	int num_dma;
 	u16 pi;
 
-	mlx5e_sq_xmit_prepare(sq, skb, NULL, &attr);
+	mlx5e_sq_xmit_prepare(sq, skb, &accel, &attr);
 	mlx5i_sq_calc_wqe_attr(skb, &attr, &wqe_attr);
 
 	pi = mlx5e_txqsq_get_next_pi(sq, wqe_attr.num_wqebbs);
@@ -1009,7 +1010,7 @@ void mlx5i_sq_xmit(struct mlx5e_txqsq *sq, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	mlx5i_txwqe_build_datagram(av, dqpn, dqkey, datagram);
 
-	mlx5e_txwqe_build_eseg_csum(sq, skb, NULL, eseg);
+	mlx5e_txwqe_build_eseg_csum(sq, skb, &accel, eseg);
 
 	eseg->mss = attr.mss;
 

base-commit: 7f0fddd817ba6daebea1445ae9fab4b6d2294fa8
-- 
2.31.1