On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:12:38 -0800 drt wrote: > On 2020-11-21 15:36, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:40:36 -0600 Lijun Pan wrote: > >> From: Dany Madden <d...@linux.ibm.com> > >> > >> Currently ibmvnic does not support the disable vnic command from the > >> Hardware Management Console. This patch enables ibmvnic to process > >> CRQ message 0x07, disable vnic adapter. > > > > What user-visible problem does this one solve? > This allows HMC to disconnect a Linux client from the network if the > vNIC adapter is misbehaving and/or sending malicious traffic. The effect > is the same as when a sysadmin sets a link down (ibmvnic_close()) on the > Linux client. This patch extends this ability to the HMC.
Okay, sounds to me like net-next material, then. IIUC we don't need to fix this ASAP and backport to stable.
