There seems to be a problem in the x540's internal switch wherein if SR/IOV
mode is enabled and an offloaded IPsec packet is sent to a local VF,
the packet is silently dropped. This might never be a problem as it is
somewhat a corner case, but if someone happens to be using IPsec offload
from the PF to a VF that just happens to get migrated to the local box,
communication will mysteriously fail.
Not good.
A simple way to protect from this is to simply not allow any IPsec offloads
for outgoing packets when num_vfs != 0. This doesn't help any offloads that
were created before SR/IOV was enabled, but we'll get to that later.
Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nel...@oracle.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
index 68395ab..24076b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c
@@ -697,6 +697,9 @@ static int ixgbe_ipsec_add_sa(struct xfrm_state *xs)
} else {
struct tx_sa tsa;
+ if (adapter->num_vfs)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
/* find the first unused index */
ret = ixgbe_ipsec_find_empty_idx(ipsec, false);
if (ret < 0) {
--
2.7.4
