linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net V2 2/3] net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns

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Message-ID: <20250916172106.593683a8@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:21:06 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, Leon Romanovsky
 <leon@...nel.org>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>,
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, Jianbo Liu
 <jianbol@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2 2/3] net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode
 with inconsistent netns

On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:24:33 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote:
> If the PF's netns has been moved and differs from the devlink's netns,
> enabling switchdev mode would create a state where the OVS control
> plane (ovs-vsctl) cannot manage the switch because the PF uplink
> representor and the other representors are split across different
> namespaces.

I appreciate the extra paragraph of explanation but it's still not 
a fix.