i40e: stop disabling VFs due to PF error responses
[ Upstream commit 5710ab79 ] The i40e_vc_send_msg_to_vf_ex (and its wrapper i40e_vc_send_msg_to_vf) function has logic to detect "failure" responses sent to the VF. If a VF is sent more than I40E_DEFAULT_NUM_INVALID_MSGS_ALLOWED, then the VF is marked as disabled. In either case, a dev_info message is printed stating that a VF opcode failed. This logic originates from the early implementation of VF support in commit 5c3c48ac ("i40e: implement virtual device interface"). That commit did not go far enough. The "logic" for this behavior seems to be that error responses somehow indicate a malicious VF. This is not really true. The PF might be sending an error for any number of reasons such as lacking resources, an unsupported operation, etc. This does not indicate a malicious VF. We already have a separate robust malicious VF detection which relies on hardware logic to detect and prevent a variety of behaviors. There is no justification for this behavior in the original implementation. In fact, a later commit 18b7af57 ("i40e: Lower some message levels") reduced the opcode failure message from a dev_err to a dev_info. In addition, recent commit 01cbf508 ("i40e: Fix to not show opcode msg on unsuccessful VF MAC change") changed the logic to allow quieting it for expected failures. That commit prevented this logic from kicking in for specific circumstances. This change did not go far enough. The behavior is not documented nor is it part of any requirement for our products. Other operating systems such as the FreeBSD implementation of our driver do not include this logic. It is clear this check does not make sense, and causes problems which led to ugly workarounds. Fix this by just removing the entire logic and the need for the i40e_vc_send_msg_to_vf_ex function. Fixes: 01cbf508 ("i40e: Fix to not show opcode msg on unsuccessful VF MAC change") Fixes: 5c3c48ac ("i40e: implement virtual device interface") Signed-off-by:Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by:
Konrad Jankowski <konrad0.jankowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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