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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>,
	Yinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@corigine.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	oss-drivers@corigine.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] nfp: clean mc addresses in application firmware when driver exits
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:59:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230628135922.2e01db94@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230628093228.12388-1-louis.peens@corigine.com>

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?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-28 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-28  9:32 [PATCH net] nfp: clean mc addresses in application firmware when driver exits Louis Peens
2023-06-28 18:21 ` Jacob Keller
2023-06-30  4:43   ` Yinjun Zhang
2023-06-28 20:59 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-06-30  4:49   ` Yinjun Zhang

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