[PATCH net 2/2] net/mlx5e: Fix leak of Geneve TLV option object

Tariq Toukan
2025-05-22T06:29:08Z

From: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>

Previously, a unique tunnel id was added for the matching on TC
non-zero chains, to support inner header rewrite with goto action.
Later, it was used to support VF tunnel offload for vxlan, then for
Geneve and GRE. To support VF tunnel, a temporary mlx5_flow_spec is
used to parse tunnel options. For Geneve, if there is TLV option, a
object is created, or refcnt is added if already exists. But the
temporary mlx5_flow_spec is directly freed after parsing, which causes
the leak because no information regarding the object is saved in
flow's mlx5_flow_spec, which is used to free the object when deleting
the flow.

To fix the leak, call mlx5_geneve_tlv_option_del() before free the
temporary spec if it has TLV object.

Fixes: 521933cdc4aa ("net/mlx5e: Support Geneve and GRE with VF tunnel offload")
Signed-off-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
index f1d908f61134..b9c1d7f8f05c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
@@ -2028,9 +2028,8 @@ mlx5e_tc_add_fdb_flow(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
return err;
}

-static bool mlx5_flow_has_geneve_opt(struct mlx5e_tc_flow *flow)
+static bool mlx5_flow_has_geneve_opt(struct mlx5_flow_spec *spec)
{
- struct mlx5_flow_spec *spec = &flow->attr->parse_attr->spec;
void *headers_v = MLX5_ADDR_OF(fte_match_param,
spec->match_value,
misc_parameters_3);
@@ -2069,7 +2068,7 @@ static void mlx5e_tc_del_fdb_flow(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
}
complete_all(&flow->del_hw_done);

- if (mlx5_flow_has_geneve_opt(flow))
+ if (mlx5_flow_has_geneve_opt(&attr->parse_attr->spec))
mlx5_geneve_tlv_option_del(priv->mdev->geneve);

if (flow->decap_route)
@@ -2580,6 +2579,8 @@ static int parse_tunnel_attr(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
return err;
}
err = mlx5e_tc_set_attr_rx_tun(flow, tmp_spec);
+ if (mlx5_flow_has_geneve_opt(tmp_spec))
+ mlx5_geneve_tlv_option_del(priv->mdev->geneve);
kvfree(tmp_spec);
if (err)
return err;
--
2.31.1