On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 12:53:27PM +0000, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Currently, IPsec flow parser will look for IPv4 flow item in the pattern,
> and then pass it to IPsec SA flow function. However, we do not check if the
> spec pointer is actually valid. Fix by adding the check.
>
> Fixes: 9a0752f498d2 ("net/ixgbe: enable inline IPsec")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
> drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
> b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
> index 81b983ce69..90a24806d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_flow.c
> @@ -251,6 +251,12 @@ cons_parse_ntuple_filter(const struct rte_flow_attr
> *attr,
> }
> item = next_no_void_pattern(pattern, item);
> }
> + if (item->spec == NULL) {
> + rte_flow_error_set(error, EINVAL,
> + RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM_SPEC, item,
> + "NULL IP pattern.");
> + return -rte_errno;
> + }
>
> filter->proto = IPPROTO_ESP;
> return ixgbe_crypto_add_ingress_sa_from_flow(conf, item->spec,
> --
> 2.47.3
>
