netdev - [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware

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Message-Id: <de0302c572b90c9224a72868d4e0d657b6313c4b.1676797613.git.leon@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 19 Feb 2023 11:09:10 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Emeel Hakim <ehakim@...dia.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Raed Salem <raeds@...dia.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: Align IPsec ASO result memory to be as required by hardware

From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>

Hardware requires an alignment to 64 bytes to return ASO data. Missing
this alignment caused to unpredictable results while ASO events were
generated.

Fixes: 8518d05b8f9a ("net/mlx5e: Create Advanced Steering Operation object for IPsec")
Reported-by: Emeel Hakim <ehakim@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h
index ddd7be05f18f..12f044330639 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec.h
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ struct mlx5e_ipsec_work {
 };
 
 struct mlx5e_ipsec_aso {
-	u8 ctx[MLX5_ST_SZ_BYTES(ipsec_aso)];
+	u8 __aligned(64) ctx[MLX5_ST_SZ_BYTES(ipsec_aso)];
 	dma_addr_t dma_addr;
 	struct mlx5_aso *aso;
 	/* Protect ASO WQ access, as it is global to whole IPsec */
-- 
2.39.2