Zero bits on the mask signify a "don't care" on the corresponding bits in key. Some HWs require those bits on the key to be zero. Since these bits are masked anyway, it's okay to provide the masked key to all drivers.
Fixes: 5b33f48842fa ('net/flower: Introduce hardware offload support') Signed-off-by: Paul Blakey <pa...@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <r...@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> --- net/sched/cls_flower.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sched/cls_flower.c b/net/sched/cls_flower.c index 9758f5a..35ac28d 100644 --- a/net/sched/cls_flower.c +++ b/net/sched/cls_flower.c @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static int fl_hw_replace_filter(struct tcf_proto *tp, offload.cookie = (unsigned long)f; offload.dissector = dissector; offload.mask = mask; - offload.key = &f->key; + offload.key = &f->mkey; offload.exts = &f->exts; tc->type = TC_SETUP_CLSFLOWER; -- 1.8.3.1