We found some dpdk applications blindly pass fixed side rss hash tables, and do not check driver/device capabilities.
Moreover, many other drivers do not do such a strong check as well. So here we fix it, making qede accept any size rss_key. For larger key tables we just crop it with notice trace message. CC: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Igor Russkikh <irussk...@marvell.com> --- drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c index ab5f5b106..bfd38a977 100644 --- a/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c @@ -2139,8 +2139,10 @@ int qede_rss_hash_update(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev, /* RSS hash key */ if (key) { if (len > (ECORE_RSS_KEY_SIZE * sizeof(uint32_t))) { - DP_ERR(edev, "RSS key length exceeds limit\n"); - return -EINVAL; + len = ECORE_RSS_KEY_SIZE * sizeof(uint32_t); + DP_NOTICE(edev, false, + "RSS key length too big, trimmed to %d\n", + len); } DP_INFO(edev, "Applying user supplied hash key\n"); rss_params.update_rss_key = 1; -- 2.25.1