From: Pavan Chebbi Ntuple filters can be deleted when the interface is down. The current code blindly sends the filter delete command to FW. When the interface is down, all the VNICs are deleted in the FW. When the VNIC is freed in the FW, all the associated filters are also freed. We need not send the free command explicitly. Sending such command will generate FW error in the dmesg. In order to fix this, we can safely return from bnxt_hwrm_cfa_ntuple_filter_free() when BNXT_STATE_OPEN is not true which confirms the VNICs have been deleted. Fixes: 8336a974f37d ("bnxt_en: Save user configured filters in a lookup list") Suggested-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: Pavan Chebbi Signed-off-by: Michael Chan --- v4: Simplified the fix to address the NULL vnic pointer bug (flagged by AI/Simon). The simplified fix now works for all ntuple filters including DROP filters. v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260213074503.2302046-4-michael.chan@broadcom.com/ --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index 7768d9753e2d..8c73a723d23f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -6240,6 +6240,9 @@ int bnxt_hwrm_cfa_ntuple_filter_free(struct bnxt *bp, int rc; set_bit(BNXT_FLTR_FW_DELETED, &fltr->base.state); + if (!test_bit(BNXT_STATE_OPEN, &bp->state)) + return 0; + rc = hwrm_req_init(bp, req, HWRM_CFA_NTUPLE_FILTER_FREE); if (rc) return rc; -- 2.51.0