From: Liang-Min Wang <liang-min.w...@intel.com>

In cases when VF sends malformed packets that are classified as malicious,
sometimes it causes Tx queue to freeze. This frozen queue can be stuck
for several minutes being unusable. This behavior can be reproduced with
DPDK application, testpmd.

When Malicious Driver Detection event occurs, perform graceful VF reset
to quickly bring VF back to operational state. Add a log message to
notify about the cause of the reset.

Signed-off-by: Liang-Min Wang <liang-min.w...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawel Chmielewski <pawel.chmielew...@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkow...@linux.intel.com>
---
Changelog
v1->v2:
Reverted unneeded formatting change, fixed commit message, fixed a log
message with a correct event name.
---

 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
index 3c9419b05a2a..ee9752af6397 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
@@ -1839,6 +1839,10 @@ static void ice_handle_mdd_event(struct ice_pf *pf)
                        if (netif_msg_tx_err(pf))
                                dev_info(dev, "Malicious Driver Detection event 
TX_TCLAN detected on VF %d\n",
                                         vf->vf_id);
+                       dev_info(dev,
+                                "PF-to-VF reset on VF %d due to Tx MDD 
TX_TCLAN event\n",
+                                vf->vf_id);
+                       ice_reset_vf(vf, ICE_VF_RESET_NOTIFY);
                }
 
                reg = rd32(hw, VP_MDET_TX_TDPU(vf->vf_id));
@@ -1849,6 +1853,10 @@ static void ice_handle_mdd_event(struct ice_pf *pf)
                        if (netif_msg_tx_err(pf))
                                dev_info(dev, "Malicious Driver Detection event 
TX_TDPU detected on VF %d\n",
                                         vf->vf_id);
+                       dev_info(dev,
+                                "PF-to-VF reset on VF %d due to Tx MDD TX_TDPU 
event\n",
+                                vf->vf_id);
+                       ice_reset_vf(vf, ICE_VF_RESET_NOTIFY);
                }
 
                reg = rd32(hw, VP_MDET_RX(vf->vf_id));
-- 
2.37.3

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