Users are not prevented from creating flow rules targeting nonexistent
queues, which silently makes such rules drop-like.

While it can be thought as a feature, reporting an error instead is
actually far more useful in order to catch common mistakes.

Fixes: 078b8b452e6b ("net/mlx4: add RSS flow rule action support")

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_flow.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_flow.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_flow.c
index 86bac1b..8b87b29 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_flow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_flow.c
@@ -734,6 +734,11 @@ mlx4_flow_prepare(struct priv *priv,
                        if (flow->rss)
                                break;
                        queue = action->conf;
+                       if (queue->index >= priv->dev->data->nb_rx_queues) {
+                               msg = "queue target index beyond number of"
+                                       " configured Rx queues";
+                               goto exit_action_not_supported;
+                       }
                        flow->rss = mlx4_rss_get
                                (priv, 0, mlx4_rss_hash_key_default, 1,
                                 &queue->index);
@@ -760,6 +765,15 @@ mlx4_flow_prepare(struct priv *priv,
                                                   ETH_RSS_NONFRAG_IPV6_TCP),
                                };
                        /* Sanity checks. */
+                       for (i = 0; i < rss->num; ++i)
+                               if (rss->queue[i] >=
+                                   priv->dev->data->nb_rx_queues)
+                                       break;
+                       if (i != rss->num) {
+                               msg = "queue index target beyond number of"
+                                       " configured Rx queues";
+                               goto exit_action_not_supported;
+                       }
                        if (!rte_is_power_of_2(rss->num)) {
                                msg = "for RSS, mlx4 requires the number of"
                                        " queues to be a power of two";
-- 
2.1.4

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