linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igbvf: Regard vf reset nack as success

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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:28:58 +0900
From:   Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@...nix.com>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@...nix.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Yan Vugenfirer <yan@...nix.com>,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igbvf: Regard vf reset nack as success

Hi,

On 2022/11/22 23:17, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Akihiko,
> 
> 
> Thank you for your patch.
> 
> 
> Am 22.11.22 um 10:27 schrieb Akihiko Odaki:
>> vf reset nack actually represents the reset operation itself is
>> performed but no address is not assigned. Therefore, e1000_reset_hw_vf
> 
> Is … no … not assigned … intentional?
> 
>> should fill the "perm_addr" with the zero address and return success on
>> such an occassion. This prevents its callers in netdev.c from saying PF
> 
> occasion

I have just sent v2 with the message fixed.

> 
>> still resetting, and instead allows them to correctly report that no
>> address is assigned.
> 
> In what environment do you hit the problem?

I found this bug when I was developing a QEMU patch to emulate 82576.

Regards,
Akihiko Odaki

> 
> […]
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul