netdev - Re: [PATCH net] macsec: Abort MACSec Rx offload datapath when skb is not marked with MACSec metadata

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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 23:31:33 +0100
From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To: Rahul Rameshbabu <rrameshbabu@...dia.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeed@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] macsec: Abort MACSec Rx offload datapath when skb is
 not marked with MACSec metadata

2023-11-01, 13:02:17 -0700, Rahul Rameshbabu wrote:
> When MACSec is configured on an outer netdev, traffic received directly
> through the underlying netdev should not be processed by the MACSec Rx
> datapath. When using MACSec offload on an outer netdev, traffic with no
> metadata indicator in the skb is mistakenly considered as MACSec traffic
> and incorrectly handled in the handle_not_macsec function. Treat skbs with
> no metadata type as non-MACSec packets rather than assuming they are MACSec
> packets.

What about the other drivers? mlx5 is the only driver that sets md_dst
on its macsec skbs, so their offloaded packets just get dropped now?

-- 
Sabrina