5e8519c408
commit edc0b0bccc9c80d9a44d3002dcca94984b25e7cf upstream.
Allow creating FDB steering rules only when in switchdev mode.
The only software model where a userspace application can manipulate
FDB entries is when it manages the eswitch. This is only possible in
switchdev mode where we expose a single RDMA device with representors
for all the vports that are connected to the eswitch.
Fixes: 52438be44112 ("RDMA/mlx5: Allow inserting a steering rule to the FDB")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e928ae7c58d07f104716a2a8d730963d1bd01204.1623052923.git.leonro@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
[sudip: manually backport to old file]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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