[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix artificial L4 limitation on switch flow rules

[Adrien Mazarguil]

Partial bit-masks are in fact supported on TCP/UDP source/destination
ports. Remove unnecessary check.

Fixes: 2bfc777e07 ("net/mlx5: add L2-L4 pattern items to switch flow rules")

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl_flow.c | 20 --------------------
 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl_flow.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl_flow.c
index a1c8c340b..beb03c911 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl_flow.c
@@ -800,16 +800,6 @@ mlx5_nl_flow_transpose(void *buf,
                }
                spec.tcp = item->spec;
                if ((mask.tcp->hdr.src_port &&
-                    mask.tcp->hdr.src_port != RTE_BE16(0xffff)) ||
-                   (mask.tcp->hdr.dst_port &&
-                    mask.tcp->hdr.dst_port != RTE_BE16(0xffff)))
-                       return rte_flow_error_set
-                               (error, ENOTSUP, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM_MASK,
-                                mask.tcp,
-                                "no support for partial masks on"
-                                " \"hdr.src_port\" and \"hdr.dst_port\""
-                                " fields");
-               if ((mask.tcp->hdr.src_port &&
                     (!mnl_attr_put_u16_check(buf, size,
                                              TCA_FLOWER_KEY_TCP_SRC,
                                              spec.tcp->hdr.src_port) ||
@@ -847,16 +837,6 @@ mlx5_nl_flow_transpose(void *buf,
                }
                spec.udp = item->spec;
                if ((mask.udp->hdr.src_port &&
-                    mask.udp->hdr.src_port != RTE_BE16(0xffff)) ||
-                   (mask.udp->hdr.dst_port &&
-                    mask.udp->hdr.dst_port != RTE_BE16(0xffff)))
-                       return rte_flow_error_set
-                               (error, ENOTSUP, RTE_FLOW_ERROR_TYPE_ITEM_MASK,
-                                mask.udp,
-                                "no support for partial masks on"
-                                " \"hdr.src_port\" and \"hdr.dst_port\""
-                                " fields");
-               if ((mask.udp->hdr.src_port &&
                     (!mnl_attr_put_u16_check(buf, size,
                                              TCA_FLOWER_KEY_UDP_SRC,
                                              spec.udp->hdr.src_port) ||
-- 
2.11.0