Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] octeontx2-af: npc: cn20k: Handle npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type() failures

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:17:20 +0100

From: 'Simon Horman' <[email-masked]>

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octeontx2-af: npc: cn20k: Handle npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type() failures

This commit adds error checking to npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type() calls.
It returns early from several void functions to prevent programming
or interpreting MCAM state with an invalid key type.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email-masked]/

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/npc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/npc.c
> index 7291fdb89b03f..2fcd0ee2b1e10 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/npc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/cn20k/npc.c

[ ... ]

> @@ -1052,10 +1054,12 @@ void npc_cn20k_config_mcam_entry(struct rvu *rvu, int blkaddr, int index,
>  	int kw = 0;
>  	u8 kw_type;
>  
> +	if (npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type(rvu, index, &kw_type))
> +		return;
> +
>  	/* Disable before mcam entry update */
>  	npc_cn20k_enable_mcam_entry(rvu, blkaddr, index, false);
>  

Does returning early from a void function here cause state desynchronization?

For example, in mailbox handlers like
rvu_mbox_handler_npc_cn20k_mcam_write_entry(), the caller assumes success
and returns 0, but the hardware programming would be silently aborted.

[ ... ]

> @@ -1132,8 +1136,13 @@ void npc_cn20k_copy_mcam_entry(struct rvu *rvu, int blkaddr, u16 src, u16 dest)
>  
>  	dbank = npc_get_bank(mcam, dest);
>  	sbank = npc_get_bank(mcam, src);
> -	npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type(rvu, src, &src_kwtype);
> -	npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type(rvu, dest, &dest_kwtype);
> +
> +	if (npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type(rvu, src, &src_kwtype))
> +		return;
> +

If this copy is skipped, could callers like npc_cn20k_defrag() unconditionally
enable the target entry with stale hardware state?

[ ... ]

> @@ -1188,7 +1197,8 @@ void npc_cn20k_read_mcam_entry(struct rvu *rvu, int blkaddr, u16 index,
>  	int kw = 0, bank;
>  	u8 kw_type;
>  
> -	npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type(rvu, index, &kw_type);
> +	if (npc_mcam_idx_2_key_type(rvu, index, &kw_type))
> +		return;

Could this leave caller variables uninitialized?

If a function like npc_update_dmac_value() passes an uninitialized u8 intf
parameter on the stack, and this function returns early, the caller might
branch on garbage data when later calling is_npc_intf_tx(intf).

Would it make sense to refactor these functions to return an int so that
failures can be propagated and gracefully handled by the callers?