netdev - Re: [PATCH net] i40e: Do not allow untrusted VF to remove administratively set MAC

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Message-ID: <20240212163717.14dc15f5@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:37:17 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc: <davem@...emloft.net>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, "Rafal Romanowski" <rafal.romanowski@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] i40e: Do not allow untrusted VF to remove
 administratively set MAC

On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:11:44 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> > Currently when PF administratively sets VF's MAC address and the VF
> > is put down (VF tries to delete all MACs) then the MAC is removed
> > from MAC filters and primary VF MAC is zeroed.
> > 
> > Do not allow untrusted VF to remove primary MAC when it was set
> > administratively by PF.  
> 
> This is currently marked as "Not Applicable" [1]. Are there changes to 
> be done or, perhaps, it got mismarked? If the latter, I do have an i40e 
> pull request to send so I could also bundle this with that if it's more 
> convenient.

I'm guessing mismarked.