Re: ixgbe: driver drops packets routed from an IPSec interface with a "bad sa_idx" error

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

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On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 10:50 -0400, Michael Marley wrote:
> On 2019-09-11 02:15, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 06:53:30PM -0400, Michael Marley wrote:
> > > StrongSwan has hardware offload disabled by default, and I
> > > didn't 
> > > enable
> > > it explicitly.  I also already tried turning off all those
> > > switches 
> > > with
> > > ethtool and it has no effect.  This doesn't surprise me though, 
> > > because
> > > as I said, I don't actually have the IPSec connection running
> > > over the
> > > ixgbe device.  The IPSec connection runs over another network
> > > adapter
> > > that doesn't support IPSec offload at all.  The problem comes
> > > when
> > > traffic received over the IPSec interface is then routed back out
> > > (unencrypted) through the ixgbe device into the local network.
> > 
> > Seems like the ixgbe driver tries to use the sec_path
> > from RX to setup an offload at the TX side.
> > 
> > Can you please try this (completely untested) patch?

Steffen, can you send your patch to intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org
mailing list?

> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > index 9bcae44e9883..ae31bd57127c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> >  #include <net/vxlan.h>
> >  #include <net/mpls.h>
> >  #include <net/xdp_sock.h>
> > +#include <net/xfrm.h>
> > 
> >  #include "ixgbe.h"
> >  #include "ixgbe_common.h"
> > @@ -8696,7 +8697,7 @@ netdev_tx_t ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring(struct
> > sk_buff 
> > *skb,
> >  #endif /* IXGBE_FCOE */
> > 
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_IPSEC
> > -	if (secpath_exists(skb) &&
> > +	if (xfrm_offload(skb) &&
> >  	    !ixgbe_ipsec_tx(tx_ring, first, &ipsec_tx))
> >  		goto out_drop;
> >  #endif
> With the patch, the problem is gone.  Thanks!
> 
> Michael


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