This commit adds a helper routine that supports searching for a
specific action in a list of actions.
Signed-off-by: Moti Haimovsky <motih@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
        }
 }
 
+/*
+ * return a pointer to the desired action in the list of actions.
+ *
+ * @param[in] actions
+ *   The list of actions to search the action in.
+ * @param[in] action
+ *   The action to find.
+ *
+ * @return
+ *   Pointer to the action in the list, if found. NULL otherwise.
+ */
+const struct rte_flow_action *
+mlx5_flow_find_action(const struct rte_flow_action *actions,
+                     enum rte_flow_action_type action)
+{
+       if (actions == NULL)
+               return NULL;
+       for (; actions->type != RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END; actions++)
+               if (actions->type == action)
+                       return actions;
+       return NULL;
+}
+
 /*
  * Validate the flag action.
  *
 
                                     uint64_t hash_fields);
 uint32_t mlx5_flow_adjust_priority(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int32_t priority,
                                   uint32_t subpriority);
+const struct rte_flow_action *mlx5_flow_find_action
+                                       (const struct rte_flow_action *actions,
+                                        enum rte_flow_action_type action);
 int mlx5_flow_validate_action_count(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
                                    const struct rte_flow_attr *attr,
                                    struct rte_flow_error *error);