Thanks very much, patch enlisted to 23.11.4 release queue.

From: Junfeng Guo <junfengg@nvidia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 2:35 PM
To: stable@dpdk.org <stable@dpdk.org>
Cc: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 23.11] net/mlx5: fix actions translation error overwrite
 
[ upstream commit 494da70e289c6a603185c890111f95568eb1fd63 ]

Function __flow_hw_translate_actions_template contains several
encapsulated functions that already have internal error handling
process via rte_flow_error_set for each case.

Thus the one (rte_flow_error_set) within the goto statement `err`
at the end of __flow_hw_translate_actions_template function may be
redundant for those failed cases. As a result, the error messages
would all be overwritten as "fail to create rte table", making it
displayed at quite large granularity.

To prevent above error messages overwrite, this patch add a local
variable `struct rte_flow_error sub_error` to the function and pass
this `sub_error` instead of `error` to each sub-function. Under error
handling process (`err` label), if `sub_error` was updated, copy its
contents to `error` and return. If it was not updated, return default
error message (`fail to create rte table`).

Also refactor the logic for SEND_TO_KERNEL, COUNT and AGE actions in
above function to align the error handling process.

Fixes: f13fab23922b ("net/mlx5: add flow jump action")
Cc: suanmingm@nvidia.com
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Junfeng Guo <junfengg@nvidia.com>
---
 .mailmap                        |  2 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 7b2798a31a..20fa4a22ba 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ Julien Hascoet <ju.hascoet@gmail.com>
 Julien Massonneau <julien.massonneau@6wind.com>
 Julien Meunier <julien.meunier@nokia.com> <julien.meunier@6wind.com>
 Július Milan <jmilan.dev@gmail.com>
-Junfeng Guo <junfeng.guo@intel.com>
+Junfeng Guo <junfengg@nvidia.com> <junfeng.guo@intel.com>
 Junjie Chen <junjie.j.chen@intel.com>
 Junjie Wan <wanjunjie@bytedance.com>
 Jun Qiu <jun.qiu@jaguarmicro.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
index 54f264a03c..c53d407746 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_hw.c
@@ -2138,6 +2138,11 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
         uint8_t *push_data = NULL, *push_data_m = NULL;
         size_t data_size = 0, push_size = 0;
         struct mlx5_hw_modify_header_action mhdr = { 0 };
+       struct rte_flow_error sub_error = {
+               .type = RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_NONE,
+               .cause = NULL,
+               .message = NULL,
+       };
         bool actions_end = false;
         uint32_t type;
         bool reformat_used = false;
@@ -2246,7 +2251,7 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                                         ((const struct rte_flow_action_jump *)
                                         actions->conf)->group;
                                 acts->jump = flow_hw_jump_action_register
-                                               (dev, cfg, jump_group, error);
+                                               (dev, cfg, jump_group, &sub_error);
                                 if (!acts->jump)
                                         goto err;
                                 acts->rule_acts[dr_pos].action = (!!attr->group) ?
@@ -2379,13 +2384,14 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                         break;
                 case RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_SEND_TO_KERNEL:
                         flow_hw_translate_group(dev, cfg, attr->group,
-                                               &target_grp, error);
+                                               &target_grp, &sub_error);
                         if (target_grp == 0) {
                                 __flow_hw_action_template_destroy(dev, acts);
-                               return rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP,
-                                               RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-                                               NULL,
-                                               "Send to kernel action on root table is not supported in HW steering mode");
+                               rte_flow_error_set(&sub_error, ENOTSUP,
+                                       RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
+                                       NULL,
+                                       "Send to kernel action on root table is not supported in HW steering mode");
+                                       goto err;
                         }
                         table_type = attr->ingress ? MLX5DR_TABLE_TYPE_NIC_RX :
                                      ((attr->egress) ? MLX5DR_TABLE_TYPE_NIC_TX :
@@ -2395,14 +2401,14 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                 case RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_MODIFY_FIELD:
                         err = flow_hw_modify_field_compile(dev, attr, actions,
                                                            masks, acts, &mhdr,
-                                                          src_pos, error);
+                                                          src_pos, &sub_error);
                         if (err)
                                 goto err;
                         break;
                 case RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_REPRESENTED_PORT:
                         if (flow_hw_represented_port_compile
                                         (dev, attr, actions,
-                                        masks, acts, src_pos, dr_pos, error))
+                                        masks, acts, src_pos, dr_pos, &sub_error))
                                 goto err;
                         break;
                 case RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_METER:
@@ -2416,7 +2422,8 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                             ((const struct rte_flow_action_meter *)
                              masks->conf)->mtr_id) {
                                 err = flow_hw_meter_compile(dev, cfg,
-                                                           dr_pos, jump_pos, actions, acts, error);
+                                                           dr_pos, jump_pos, actions, acts,
+                                                           &sub_error);
                                 if (err)
                                         goto err;
                         } else if (__flow_hw_act_data_general_append(priv, acts,
@@ -2427,13 +2434,14 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                         break;
                 case RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_AGE:
                         flow_hw_translate_group(dev, cfg, attr->group,
-                                               &target_grp, error);
+                                               &target_grp, &sub_error);
                         if (target_grp == 0) {
                                 __flow_hw_action_template_destroy(dev, acts);
-                               return rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP,
-                                               RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-                                               NULL,
-                                               "Age action on root table is not supported in HW steering mode");
+                               rte_flow_error_set(&sub_error, ENOTSUP,
+                                       RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
+                                       NULL,
+                                       "Age action on root table is not supported in HW steering mode");
+                                       goto err;
                         }
                         if (__flow_hw_act_data_general_append(priv, acts,
                                                               actions->type,
@@ -2443,13 +2451,14 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                         break;
                 case RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_COUNT:
                         flow_hw_translate_group(dev, cfg, attr->group,
-                                               &target_grp, error);
+                                               &target_grp, &sub_error);
                         if (target_grp == 0) {
                                 __flow_hw_action_template_destroy(dev, acts);
-                               return rte_flow_error_set(error, ENOTSUP,
-                                               RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
-                                               NULL,
-                                               "Counter action on root table is not supported in HW steering mode");
+                               rte_flow_error_set(&sub_error, ENOTSUP,
+                                       RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ACTION,
+                                       NULL,
+                                       "Counter action on root table is not supported in HW steering mode");
+                                       goto err;
                         }
                         if ((at->action_flags & MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_AGE) ||
                             (at->action_flags & MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_INDIRECT_AGE))
@@ -2519,7 +2528,7 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
         }
         if (mhdr.pos != UINT16_MAX) {
                 ret = mlx5_tbl_translate_modify_header(dev, cfg, acts, mp_ctx,
-                                                      &mhdr, error);
+                                                      &mhdr, &sub_error);
                 if (ret)
                         goto err;
         }
@@ -2529,7 +2538,7 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                                                   encap_data, encap_data_m,
                                                   mp_ctx, data_size,
                                                   reformat_src,
-                                                 refmt_type, error);
+                                                 refmt_type, &sub_error);
                 if (ret)
                         goto err;
         }
@@ -2548,6 +2557,10 @@ __flow_hw_actions_translate(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                 rte_errno = EINVAL;
         err = rte_errno;
         __flow_hw_action_template_destroy(dev, acts);
+       if (error != NULL && sub_error.type != RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_NONE) {
+               rte_memcpy(error, &sub_error, sizeof(sub_error));
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
         return rte_flow_error_set(error, err,
                                   RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED, NULL,
                                   "fail to create rte table");
--
2.34.1