netdev - Re: ixgbe: driver drops packets routed from an IPSec interface with a "bad sa

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Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:15:47 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Michael Marley <michael@...haelmarley.com>
CC:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: ixgbe: driver drops packets routed from an IPSec interface with
 a "bad sa_idx" error

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 06:53:30PM -0400, Michael Marley wrote:
> 
> StrongSwan has hardware offload disabled by default, and I didn't enable
> it explicitly.  I also already tried turning off all those switches with
> ethtool and it has no effect.  This doesn't surprise me though, because
> as I said, I don't actually have the IPSec connection running over the
> ixgbe device.  The IPSec connection runs over another network adapter
> that doesn't support IPSec offload at all.  The problem comes when
> traffic received over the IPSec interface is then routed back out
> (unencrypted) through the ixgbe device into the local network.


Seems like the ixgbe driver tries to use the sec_path
from RX to setup an offload at the TX side.

Can you please try this (completely untested) patch?

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 9bcae44e9883..ae31bd57127c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <net/vxlan.h>
 #include <net/mpls.h>
 #include <net/xdp_sock.h>
+#include <net/xfrm.h>
 
 #include "ixgbe.h"
 #include "ixgbe_common.h"
@@ -8696,7 +8697,7 @@ netdev_tx_t ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring(struct sk_buff *skb,
 #endif /* IXGBE_FCOE */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_IPSEC
-	if (secpath_exists(skb) &&
+	if (xfrm_offload(skb) &&
 	    !ixgbe_ipsec_tx(tx_ring, first, &ipsec_tx))
 		goto out_drop;
 #endif