Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2 3/3] net/mlx5e: kTLS, Cancel RX async resync request in error flows

From: Sabrina Dubroca <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:54:55 +0200

2025-10-20, 10:05:54 +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Shahar Shitrit <[email-masked]>
> 
> When device loses track of TLS records, it attempts to resync by
> monitoring records and requests an asynchronous resynchronization
> from software for this TLS connection.
> 
> The TLS module handles such device RX resync requests by logging record
> headers and comparing them with the record tcp_sn when provided by the
> device. It also increments rcd_delta to track how far the current
> record tcp_sn is from the tcp_sn of the original resync request.
> If the device later responds with a matching tcp_sn, the TLS module
> approves the tcp_sn for resync.
> 
> However, the device response may be delayed or never arrive,
> particularly due to traffic-related issues such as packet drops or
> reordering. In such cases, the TLS module remains unaware that resync
> will not complete, and continues performing unnecessary work by logging
> headers and incrementing rcd_delta, which can eventually exceed the
> threshold and trigger a WARN(). For example, this was observed when the
> device got out of tracking, causing
> mlx5e_ktls_handle_get_psv_completion() to fail and ultimately leading
> to the rcd_delta warning.
> 
> To address this, call tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_cancel()
> to cancel the resync request and stop resync tracking in such error
> cases. Also, increment the tls_resync_req_skip counter to track these
> cancellations.
> 
> Fixes: 0419d8c9d8f8 ("net/mlx5e: kTLS, Add kTLS RX resync support")
> Signed-off-by: Shahar Shitrit <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_rx.c     | 33 ++++++++++++++++---
>  .../mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_txrx.h   |  4 +++
>  .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c   |  4 +++
>  3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_rx.c
> index 5fbc92269585..ae325c471e7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ktls_rx.c
> @@ -339,14 +339,19 @@ static void resync_handle_work(struct work_struct *work)
>  
>  	if (unlikely(test_bit(MLX5E_PRIV_RX_FLAG_DELETING, priv_rx->flags))) {
>  		mlx5e_ktls_priv_rx_put(priv_rx);
> +		priv_rx->rq_stats->tls_resync_req_skip++;
> +		tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_cancel(&resync->core);
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
>  	c = resync->priv->channels.c[priv_rx->rxq];
>  	sq = &c->async_icosq;
>  
> -	if (resync_post_get_progress_params(sq, priv_rx))
> +	if (resync_post_get_progress_params(sq, priv_rx)) {
> +		priv_rx->rq_stats->tls_resync_req_skip++;

There's already a tls_resync_req_skip++ at the end of
resync_post_get_progress_params() just before returning an error, so I
don't think this one is needed? (or keep this one and remove the one
in resync_post_get_progress_params, so that tls_resync_req_skip++ and
_cancel() are together like in the rest of the patch)

Other than that, I don't understand much about the resync handling in
the driver and how the various bits fit together, but the patch looks
consistent.

> +		tls_offload_rx_resync_async_request_cancel(&resync->core);
>  		mlx5e_ktls_priv_rx_put(priv_rx);
> +	}
>  }

-- 
Sabrina