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

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Message-ID: <4be69e7a-63f3-d920-9b4e-49c3682f6b2e@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:57:08 -0800
From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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 2/12/2024 4:37 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

I see it as Under Review now. I'll go ahead and do the other patches 
without this one included then.

Thanks,
Tony