Re: [PATCH iwl-net v2 0/4] iavf: fix VLAN filter state machine races

[Jacob Keller]

On 4/21/2026 2:02 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 04:29:41PM +0200, Petr Oros wrote:
>> The iavf VLAN filter state machine has several design issues that lead
>> to race conditions between userspace add/del calls and the watchdog
>> task's virtchnl processing.  Filters can get lost or leak HW resources,
>> especially during interface down/up cycles and namespace moves.
> 
> ...
> 
> Hi Petr,
> 
> Sashiko has a bit to say about this patch.
> I'd appreciate it if you could look over that.
> 
> In particular, the feedback on patches 2 and 3 may warrant
> some updates to this patchset, while I think 4 is more
> in the realm of possible future work.

@Petr,

Could you please review the Sashiko reports and clarify whether a new
version will be needed?

The original series posted as a net-next was Tested-by, and it would be
good to get this moving, but I don't want to queue it up for sending
until certain it won't simply get rejected due to these unresolved comments.

Thanks,
Jake