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In ice_is_malicious_vf we report a message warning the system administrator when a VF is potentially spamming the PF with asynchronous messages that could overflow the PF mailbox. The specific message was requested by our customer support team to include the VF and PF MAC address. In some cases we may not be able to locate the PF VSI to obtain the MAC address for the PF. The current implementation discards the message entirely in this case. Fix this to instead print a zero address in that case so that we always print something here. Note that dev_warn will also include the PCI device information allowing another mechanism for determining on which PF the potentially malicious VF belongs. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Marek Szlosek <marek.szlosek@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.