From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/iavf: ensure no polling during VF initiated reset
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:32:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aPEB41R031lSxlKp@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016113224.1652880-1-ciara.loftus@intel.com>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 11:32:24AM +0000, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> Ensure that the datapath functions will not poll during a vf initiated
> reset. Otherwise the datapath could access freed resources and cause a
> core dump. Achieve this by ensuring that the no-poll-on-link-down devarg
> is set when trying to reinit a started device. If it's not set, suggest
> stopping the port before the reinit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
After discussing offline with Ciara, this patch is mostly a fix to the
previous iavf reset patch, which is not yet pulled to main. Therefore patch
squashed to original commit on next-net-intel tree.
Thanks,
/Bruce
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