The PMD checked flow pointer for NULL value after a call to
flow_hw_create_flow(). The function API does not define flow pointer
value if the function call has failed.

The patch fixes error verification after flow_hw_create_flow()
returned - a calling function must check flow_hw_create_flow() return
value.

Fixes: f74914c9956e ("net/mlx5: fix non-template IPv6 flow RSS hash")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Gregory Etelson <getel...@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnow...@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nta_rss.c | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nta_rss.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nta_rss.c
index 8f00510445..b7738f910d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nta_rss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nta_rss.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ mlx5_nta_ptype_rss_flow_create(struct mlx5_nta_rss_ctx *ctx,
                                  ctx->pattern, ctx->actions,
                                  MLX5_FLOW_ITEM_PTYPE, MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_RSS,
                                  ctx->external, &flow, ctx->error);
-       if (flow) {
+       if (ret == 0) {
                SLIST_INSERT_HEAD(ctx->head, flow, nt2hws->next);
                if (dbg_log) {
                        DRV_LOG(NOTICE,
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ mlx5_hw_rss_ptype_create_miss_flow(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                                   uint32_t ptype_group, bool external,
                                   struct rte_flow_error *error)
 {
+       int ret;
        struct rte_flow_hw *flow = NULL;
        const struct rte_flow_attr miss_attr = {
                .ingress = 1,
@@ -300,10 +301,10 @@ mlx5_hw_rss_ptype_create_miss_flow(struct rte_eth_dev 
*dev,
                [MLX5_RSS_PTYPE_ACTION_INDEX + 1] = { .type = 
RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END }
        };
 
-       flow_hw_create_flow(dev, MLX5_FLOW_TYPE_GEN, &miss_attr,
-                           miss_pattern, miss_actions, 0, MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_RSS,
-                           external, &flow, error);
-       return flow;
+       ret = flow_hw_create_flow(dev, MLX5_FLOW_TYPE_GEN, &miss_attr,
+                                 miss_pattern, miss_actions, 0,
+                                 MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_RSS, external, &flow, error);
+       return ret == 0 ? flow : NULL;
 }
 
 static struct rte_flow_hw *
@@ -316,7 +317,7 @@ mlx5_hw_rss_ptype_create_base_flow(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                                   enum mlx5_flow_type flow_type,
                                   struct rte_flow_error *error)
 {
-       int i = 0;
+       int ret, i = 0;
        struct rte_flow_hw *flow = NULL;
        struct rte_flow_action actions[MLX5_HW_MAX_ACTS];
        enum mlx5_indirect_type indirect_type;
@@ -345,9 +346,9 @@ mlx5_hw_rss_ptype_create_base_flow(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
        } while (actions[i++].type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END);
        action_flags &= ~MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_RSS;
        action_flags |= MLX5_FLOW_ACTION_JUMP;
-       flow_hw_create_flow(dev, flow_type, attr, pattern, actions,
-                           item_flags, action_flags, external, &flow, error);
-       return flow;
+       ret = flow_hw_create_flow(dev, flow_type, attr, pattern, actions,
+                                 item_flags, action_flags, external, &flow, 
error);
+       return ret == 0 ? flow : NULL;
 }
 
 const struct rte_flow_action_rss *
@@ -425,6 +426,7 @@ flow_nta_create_single(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                       enum mlx5_flow_type flow_type,
                       struct rte_flow_error *error)
 {
+       int ret;
        struct rte_flow_hw *flow = NULL;
        struct rte_flow_action copy[MLX5_HW_MAX_ACTS];
        const struct rte_flow_action *_actions;
@@ -456,10 +458,9 @@ flow_nta_create_single(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                _actions = actions;
        }
 end:
-       flow_hw_create_flow(dev, flow_type, attr, items,
-                           _actions, item_flags, action_flags,
-                           external, &flow, error);
-       return flow;
+       ret = flow_hw_create_flow(dev, flow_type, attr, items, _actions,
+                                 item_flags, action_flags, external, &flow, 
error);
+       return ret == 0 ? flow : NULL;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.48.1

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