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Tony Nguyen says: ==================== 100GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2022-03-03 Jacob Keller says: This series refactors the ice networking driver VF storage from a simple static array to a hash table. It also introduces krefs and proper locking and protection to prevent common use-after-free and concurrency issues. There are two motivations for this work. First is to make the ice driver more resilient by preventing a whole class of use-after-free bugs that can occur around concurrent access to VF structures while removing VFs. The second is to prepare the ice driver for future virtualization work to support Scalable IOV, an alternative VF implementation compared to Single Root IOV. The new VF implementation will allow for more dynamic VF creation and removal, necessitating a more robust implementation for VF storage that can't rely on the existing mechanisms to prevent concurrent access violations. The first few patches are cleanup and preparatory work needed to make the conversion to the hash table safe. Following this preparatory work is a patch to migrate the VF structures and variables to a new sub-structure for code clarity. Next introduce new interface functions to abstract the VF storage. Finally, the driver is actually converted to the hash table and kref implementation. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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