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Jedrzej Jagielski a376e29b1b ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by negotiating supported features 
commit a7075f501b upstream.

There was backward compatibility in the terms of mailbox API. Various
drivers from various OSes supporting 10G adapters from Intel portfolio
could easily negotiate mailbox API.

This convention has been broken since introducing API 1.4.
Commit 0062e7cc95 ("ixgbevf: add VF IPsec offload code") added support
for IPSec which is specific only for the kernel ixgbe driver. None of the
rest of the Intel 10G PF/VF drivers supports it. And actually lack of
support was not included in the IPSec implementation - there were no such
code paths. No possibility to negotiate support for the feature was
introduced along with introduction of the feature itself.

Commit 339f289641 ("ixgbevf: Add support for new mailbox communication
between PF and VF") increasing API version to 1.5 did the same - it
introduced code supported specifically by the PF ESX driver. It altered API
version for the VF driver in the same time not touching the version
defined for the PF ixgbe driver. It led to additional discrepancies,
as the code provided within API 1.6 cannot be supported for Linux ixgbe
driver as it causes crashes.

The issue was noticed some time ago and mitigated by Jake within the commit
d0725312ad ("ixgbevf: stop attempting IPSEC offload on Mailbox API 1.5").
As a result we have regression for IPsec support and after increasing API
to version 1.6 ixgbevf driver stopped to support ESX MBX.

To fix this mess add new mailbox op asking PF driver about supported
features. Basing on a response determine whether to set support for IPSec
and ESX-specific enhanced mailbox.

New mailbox op, for compatibility purposes, must be added within new API
revision, as API version of OOT PF & VF drivers is already increased to
1.6 and doesn't incorporate features negotiate op.

Features negotiation mechanism gives possibility to be extended with new
features when needed in the future.

Reported-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20241101-jk-ixgbevf-mailbox-v1-5-fixes-v1-0-f556dc9a66ed@intel.com/
Fixes: 0062e7cc95 ("ixgbevf: add VF IPsec offload code")
Fixes: 339f289641 ("ixgbevf: Add support for new mailbox communication between PF and VF")
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jedrzej Jagielski <jedrzej.jagielski@intel.com>
Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251009-jk-iwl-net-2025-10-01-v3-4-ef32a425b92a@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-10-23 16:24:20 +02:00
arch arm64/sysreg: Fix GIC CDEOI instruction encoding 2025-10-23 16:24:20 +02:00
block blk-crypto: fix missing blktrace bio split events 2025-10-19 16:37:23 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
Documentation docs: kdoc: handle the obsolescensce of docutils.ErrorString() 2025-10-23 16:24:19 +02:00
drivers ixgbevf: fix mailbox API compatibility by negotiating supported features 2025-10-23 16:24:20 +02:00
fs vfs: Don't leak disconnected dentries on umount 2025-10-23 16:24:19 +02:00
include ata: libata-core: relax checks in ata_read_log_directory() 2025-10-23 16:24:20 +02:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:37:27 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/zcrx: increment fallback loop src offset 2025-10-19 16:37:14 +02:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel pid: Add a judgment for ns null in pid_nr_ns 2025-10-19 16:37:43 +02:00
lib lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/damon/lru_sort: use param_ctx for damon_attrs staging 2025-10-19 16:37:38 +02:00
net mptcp: reset blackhole on success with non-loopback ifaces 2025-10-19 16:37:36 +02:00
rust cpufreq: Make drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL specify transition latency 2025-10-19 16:37:00 +02:00
samples 15 hotfixes. 11 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues 2025-09-17 21:34:26 -07:00
scripts kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux 2025-10-19 16:37:15 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:37:28 +02:00
sound ASoC: SOF: Intel: Read the LLP via the associated Link DMA channel 2025-10-19 16:37:09 +02:00
tools selftests: mptcp: join: validate C-flag + def limit 2025-10-19 16:37:36 +02:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore gitignore: allow .pylintrc to be tracked 2025-07-02 17:10:04 -06:00
.mailmap 7 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.16 issues or 2025-09-28 09:32:00 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: retire Boris from TLS maintainers 2025-08-26 17:36:01 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS i2c-for-6.17-rc8 2025-09-28 13:19:23 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.17.4 2025-10-19 16:37:45 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.