Re: [PATCH net v2 0/6] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2025-10-01 (idpf, ixgbe, ixgbevf)

From: Simon Horman

Date: Sat Oct 04 2025 - 12:56:42 EST


On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 06:09:43PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> For idpf:
> Milena fixes a memory leak in the idpf reset logic when the driver resets
> with an outstanding Tx timestamp.
>
> For ixgbe and ixgbevf:
> Jedrzej fixes an issue with reporting link speed on E610 VFs.
>
> Jedrzej also fixes the VF mailbox API incompatibilities caused by the
> confusion with API v1.4, v1.5, and v1.6. The v1.4 API introduced IPSEC
> offload, but this was only supported on Linux hosts. The v1.5 API
> introduced a new mailbox API which is necessary to resolve issues on ESX
> hosts. The v1.6 API introduced a new link management API for E610. Jedrzej
> introduces a new v1.7 API with a feature negotiation which enables properly
> checking if features such as IPSEC or the ESX mailbox APIs are supported.
> This resolves issues with compatibility on different hosts, and aligns the
> API across hosts instead of having Linux require custom mailbox API
> versions for IPSEC offload.
>
> Koichiro fixes a KASAN use-after-free bug in ixgbe_remove().
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop Emil's idpf_vport_open race fix for now.
> - Add my signature.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251001-jk-iwl-net-2025-10-01-v1-0-49fa99e86600@xxxxxxxxx

Hi Jake,

Maybe I'm missing something simple here.

But this series doesn't seem to apply to net due to the presence of
commit 7a5a03869801 ("idpf: add HW timestamping statistics")