diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve_vxlan.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve_vxlan.c
index 52c2fe3644d4..b78aff31c98f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve_vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve_vxlan.c
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ static bool mlxsw_sp_nve_vxlan_can_offload(const struct mlxsw_sp_nve *nve,
 		return false;
 	}
 
+	if (test_bit(VXLAN_DEV_F_MDB, &vxlan->flags)) {
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "VxLAN: MDB entries are not supported");
+		return false;
+	}
+
 	switch (cfg->saddr.sa.sa_family) {
 	case AF_INET:
 		if (!mlxsw_sp_nve_vxlan_ipv4_flags_check(cfg, extack))
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
index 95d26d9a22ad..6503571b9431 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c
@@ -2826,7 +2826,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t vxlan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	if (nhid)
 		return vxlan_xmit_nhid(skb, dev, nhid, vni, cfg);
 
-	if (flags & VXLAN_F_MDB) {
+	if (test_bit(VXLAN_DEV_F_MDB, &vxlan->flags)) {
 		struct vxlan_mdb_entry *mdb_entry;
 
 		rcu_read_lock();
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c
index 56ca92832833..cf606256d092 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_mdb.c
@@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ vxlan_mdb_entry_get(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
 		goto err_free_entry;
 
 	if (hlist_is_singular_node(&mdb_entry->mdb_node, &vxlan->mdb_list))
-		vxlan->cfg.flags |= VXLAN_F_MDB;
+		set_bit(VXLAN_DEV_F_MDB, &vxlan->flags);
 
 	return mdb_entry;
 
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ static void vxlan_mdb_entry_put(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan,
 		return;
 
 	if (hlist_is_singular_node(&mdb_entry->mdb_node, &vxlan->mdb_list))
-		vxlan->cfg.flags &= ~VXLAN_F_MDB;
+		clear_bit(VXLAN_DEV_F_MDB, &vxlan->flags);
 
 	rhashtable_remove_fast(&vxlan->mdb_tbl, &mdb_entry->rhnode,
 			       vxlan_mdb_rht_params);
@@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@ void vxlan_mdb_fini(struct vxlan_dev *vxlan)
 	struct vxlan_mdb_flush_desc desc = {};
 
 	vxlan_mdb_flush(vxlan, &desc);
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(vxlan->cfg.flags & VXLAN_F_MDB);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(VXLAN_DEV_F_MDB, &vxlan->flags));
 	rhashtable_free_and_destroy(&vxlan->mdb_tbl, vxlan_mdb_check_empty,
 				    NULL);
 }
diff --git a/include/net/vxlan.h b/include/net/vxlan.h
index 7b8207505523..d323f91af236 100644
--- a/include/net/vxlan.h
+++ b/include/net/vxlan.h
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ struct vxlan_dev {
 	spinlock_t	  hash_lock;
 	unsigned int	  addrcnt;
 	struct gro_cells  gro_cells;
+	unsigned long	  flags;
 
 	struct vxlan_config	cfg;
 
@@ -313,6 +314,10 @@ struct vxlan_dev {
 	unsigned int mdb_seq;
 };
 
+enum vxlan_dev_flags {
+	VXLAN_DEV_F_MDB,
+};
+
 #define VXLAN_F_LEARN			0x01
 #define VXLAN_F_PROXY			0x02
 #define VXLAN_F_RSC			0x04
@@ -331,7 +336,6 @@ struct vxlan_dev {
 #define VXLAN_F_IPV6_LINKLOCAL		0x8000
 #define VXLAN_F_TTL_INHERIT		0x10000
 #define VXLAN_F_VNIFILTER               0x20000
-#define VXLAN_F_MDB			0x40000
 #define VXLAN_F_LOCALBYPASS		0x80000
 #define VXLAN_F_MC_ROUTE		0x100000