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net/mlx5: Relax capability check for eswitch query paths
authorMoshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Wed, 6 May 2026 13:32:37 +0000 (16:32 +0300)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 9 May 2026 01:50:34 +0000 (18:50 -0700)
commit8ca32460815f6876095be8798adcf5ab982e94de
treeec843e5011bb4247ca0ccace1874268c2e51db56
parent1160428a8b6431c8976d26cd728e61b31424b3ee
net/mlx5: Relax capability check for eswitch query paths

Several eswitch functions that only query other functions' HCA
capabilities or read cached vport state are guarded by the
vhca_resource_manager capability. This capability is required for
set_hca_cap operations but query_hca_cap of other functions only
requires the vport_group_manager capability.

Relax the capability check from vhca_resource_manager to
vport_group_manager in the following query-only paths:
- mlx5_esw_vport_caps_get() - queries other function general caps
- esw_ipsec_vf_query_generic() - queries other function ipsec cap
- mlx5_devlink_port_fn_migratable_get() - reads cached vport state
- mlx5_devlink_port_fn_roce_get() - reads cached vport state
- mlx5_devlink_port_fn_max_io_eqs_get() - queries other function caps
- mlx5_esw_vport_enable/disable() - vhca_id map/unmap

Functions that perform also set_hca_cap (migratable_set, roce_set,
max_io_eqs_set, esw_ipsec_vf_set_generic, esw_ipsec_vf_set_bytype)
retain the vhca_resource_manager requirement.

Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Akiva Goldberger <agoldberger@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260506133239.276237-2-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/esw/ipsec.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads.c