[SRU][N:linux-bluefield][PATCH v1 4/5] net/mlx5e: Fix leak of Geneve TLV option object

Stav Aviram saviram at nvidia.com
Mon Oct 6 09:34:42 UTC 2025


From: Jianbo Liu <jianbol at nvidia.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2126876

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 at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Lazar <alazar at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch at nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250610151514.1094735-9-mbloch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit aa9c44b842096c553871bc68a8cebc7861fa192b)
Signed-off-by: Stav Aviram <saviram at nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
index 9fb2c057bd78..a840f8e57422 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_tc.c
@@ -1917,9 +1917,8 @@ 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);
@@ -1958,7 +1957,7 @@ 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)
@@ -2458,12 +2457,13 @@ static int parse_tunnel_attr(struct mlx5e_priv *priv,
 
 		err = mlx5e_tc_tun_parse(filter_dev, priv, tmp_spec, f, match_level);
 		if (err) {
-			kvfree(tmp_spec);
 			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Failed to parse tunnel attributes");
 			netdev_warn(priv->netdev, "Failed to parse tunnel attributes");
-			return err;
+		} else {
+			err = mlx5e_tc_set_attr_rx_tun(flow, tmp_spec);
 		}
-		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;
-- 
2.38.1




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