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Message-ID: <20230628135922.2e01db94@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:59:22 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Louis Peens <louis.peens@...igine.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>, Yinjun Zhang
 <yinjun.zhang@...igine.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 stable@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...igine.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] nfp: clean mc addresses in application firmware
 when driver exits

On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:32:28 +0200 Louis Peens wrote:
> The configured mc addresses are not removed from application firmware
> when driver exits. This will cause resource leak when repeatedly
> creating and destroying VFs.

I think the justification is somewhat questionable, too.
VF is by definition not trusted. Does FLR not clean up the resources?

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