[PATCH 6.12 299/567] i40e: validate ring_len parameter against hardware-specific values

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:30:46Z

From: Gregory Herrero <gregory.herrero@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit 69942834215323cd9131db557091b4dec43f19c5 ]

The maximum number of descriptors supported by the hardware is
hardware-dependent and can be retrieved using
i40e_get_max_num_descriptors(). Move this function to a shared header
and use it when checking for valid ring_len parameter rather than using
hardcoded value.

By fixing an over-acceptance issue, behavior change could be seen where
ring_len could now be rejected while configuring rx and tx queues if its
size is larger than the hardware-dependent maximum number of
descriptors.

Fixes: 55d225670def ("i40e: add validation for ring_len param")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Herrero <gregory.herrero@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h | 11 +++++++++++
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 12 ------------
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
index b8de97343ad3..de3d5e5b8306 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h
@@ -1415,4 +1415,15 @@ static inline struct i40e_veb *i40e_pf_get_main_veb(struct i40e_pf *pf)
return (pf->lan_veb != I40E_NO_VEB) ? pf->veb[pf->lan_veb] : NULL;
}

+static inline u32 i40e_get_max_num_descriptors(const struct i40e_pf *pf)
+{
+ const struct i40e_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
+
+ switch (hw->mac.type) {
+ case I40E_MAC_XL710:
+ return I40E_MAX_NUM_DESCRIPTORS_XL710;
+ default:
+ return I40E_MAX_NUM_DESCRIPTORS;
+ }
+}
#endif /* _I40E_H_ */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
index bce5b76f1e7a..9a96f67fb648 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c
@@ -2010,18 +2010,6 @@ static void i40e_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev,
drvinfo->n_priv_flags += I40E_GL_PRIV_FLAGS_STR_LEN;
}

-static u32 i40e_get_max_num_descriptors(struct i40e_pf *pf)
-{
- struct i40e_hw *hw = &pf->hw;
-
- switch (hw->mac.type) {
- case I40E_MAC_XL710:
- return I40E_MAX_NUM_DESCRIPTORS_XL710;
- default:
- return I40E_MAX_NUM_DESCRIPTORS;
- }
-}
-
static void i40e_get_ringparam(struct net_device *netdev,
struct ethtool_ringparam *ring,
struct kernel_ethtool_ringparam *kernel_ring,
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 646e394f5190..3251ffa7d994 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ static int i40e_config_vsi_tx_queue(struct i40e_vf *vf, u16 vsi_id,

/* ring_len has to be multiple of 8 */
if (!IS_ALIGNED(info->ring_len, 8) ||
- info->ring_len > I40E_MAX_NUM_DESCRIPTORS_XL710) {
+ info->ring_len > i40e_get_max_num_descriptors(pf)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto error_context;
}
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ static int i40e_config_vsi_rx_queue(struct i40e_vf *vf, u16 vsi_id,

/* ring_len has to be multiple of 32 */
if (!IS_ALIGNED(info->ring_len, 32) ||
- info->ring_len > I40E_MAX_NUM_DESCRIPTORS_XL710) {
+ info->ring_len > i40e_get_max_num_descriptors(pf)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto error_param;
}
--
2.51.0