This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ixgbe: fail to create xfrm offload of IPsec tunnel mode SA to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ixgbe-fail-to-create-xfrm-offload-of-ipsec-tunnel-mode-sa.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d785e1fec60179f534fbe8d006c890e5ad186e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antony Antony <antony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:17:48 +0200 Subject: ixgbe: fail to create xfrm offload of IPsec tunnel mode SA From: Antony Antony <antony@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit d785e1fec60179f534fbe8d006c890e5ad186e51 upstream. Based on talks and indirect references ixgbe IPsec offlod do not support IPsec tunnel mode offload. It can only support IPsec transport mode offload. Now explicitly fail when creating non transport mode SA with offload to avoid false performance expectations. Fixes: 63a67fe229ea ("ixgbe: add ipsec offload add and remove SA") Signed-off-by: Antony Antony <antony@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c | 5 +++++ drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ipsec.c @@ -575,6 +575,11 @@ static int ixgbe_ipsec_add_sa(struct xfr return -EINVAL; } + if (xs->props.mode != XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT) { + netdev_err(dev, "Unsupported mode for ipsec offload\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (ixgbe_ipsec_check_mgmt_ip(xs)) { netdev_err(dev, "IPsec IP addr clash with mgmt filters\n"); return -EINVAL; --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c @@ -272,6 +272,11 @@ static int ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa(struct x return -EINVAL; } + if (xs->props.mode != XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT) { + netdev_err(dev, "Unsupported mode for ipsec offload\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + if (xs->xso.flags & XFRM_OFFLOAD_INBOUND) { struct rx_sa rsa; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from antony@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.4/ixgbe-fail-to-create-xfrm-offload-of-ipsec-tunnel-mode-sa.patch