Re: Fix Intel's ice driver in stable

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:16:39PM -0600, Ahmed Zaki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Upstream commit 11fbb1bfb5bc8c98b2d7db9da332b5e568f4aaab ("ice: use relative
> VSI index for VFs VSIs") was applied to stable 6.1, 6.6 and 6.8:
> 
> 6.1: 5693dd6d3d01f0eea24401f815c98b64cb315b67
> 6.6: c926393dc3442c38fdcab17d040837cf4acad1c3
> 6.8: d3da0d4d9fb472ad7dccb784f3d9de40d0c2f6a9
> 
> However, it was a part of a series submitted to net-next [1]. Applying this
> one patch on its own broke the VF devices created with the ice as a PF:
> 
>   # [  307.688237] iavf: Intel(R) Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function Network
> Driver
>   # [  307.688241] Copyright (c) 2013 - 2018 Intel Corporation.
>   # [  307.688424] iavf 0000:af:01.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
>   # [  307.758860] iavf 0000:af:01.0: Invalid MAC address 00:00:00:00:00:00,
> using random
>   # [  307.759628] iavf 0000:af:01.0: Multiqueue Enabled: Queue pair count =
> 16
>   # [  307.759683] iavf 0000:af:01.0: MAC address: 6a:46:83:88:c2:26
>   # [  307.759688] iavf 0000:af:01.0: GRO is enabled
>   # [  307.790937] iavf 0000:af:01.0 ens802f0v0: renamed from eth0
>   # [  307.896041] iavf 0000:af:01.0: PF returned error -5 (IAVF_ERR_PARAM)
> to our request 6
>   # [  307.916967] iavf 0000:af:01.0: PF returned error -5 (IAVF_ERR_PARAM)
> to our request 8
> 
> 
> The VF initialization fails and the VF device is completely unusable.
> 
> This can be fixed either by:
> 1 - Reverting the above mentioned commit (upstream
> 11fbb1bfb5bc8c98b2d7db9da332b5e568f4aaab)

If you want this reverted, can you send the revert?

> Or,
> 
> 2 - applying the following upstream commits (part of the series):
>  a) a21605993dd5dfd15edfa7f06705ede17b519026 ("ice: pass VSI pointer into
> ice_vc_isvalid_q_id")
>  b) 363f689600dd010703ce6391bcfc729a97d21840 ("ice: remove unnecessary
> duplicate checks for VF VSI ID")

We can take these too, it's your choice, which do you want us to do?

thanks,

greg k-h