Re: [PATCH net 3/4] ice: add profile conflict check for AVF FDIR

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 10:20:34AM -0700, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo@intel.com>
> 
> Add profile conflict check while adding some FDIR rules to avoid
> unexpected flow behavior, rules may have conflict including:
>         IPv4 <---> {IPv4_UDP, IPv4_TCP, IPv4_SCTP}
>         IPv6 <---> {IPv6_UDP, IPv6_TCP, IPv6_SCTP}
> 
> For example, when we create an FDIR rule for IPv4, this rule will work
> on packets including IPv4, IPv4_UDP, IPv4_TCP and IPv4_SCTP. But if we
> then create an FDIR rule for IPv4_UDP and then destroy it, the first
> FDIR rule for IPv4 cannot work on pkt IPv4_UDP then.
> 
> To prevent this unexpected behavior, we add restriction in software
> when creating FDIR rules by adding necessary profile conflict check.
> 
> Fixes: 1f7ea1cd6a37 ("ice: Enable FDIR Configure for AVF")
> Signed-off-by: Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
> ---
>  .../ethernet/intel/ice/ice_virtchnl_fdir.c    | 73 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 73 insertions(+)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>