ice_is_malicious_vf(9)

🫶 ice_is_malicious_vf(9) — Kernel API Manual 🫶

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for ice_is_malicious_vf(9) — it's giving “security vibe check but make it kernel” energy. 💅

💖 NAME 💖

ice_is_malicious_vf — check if this vf might be overflowing mailbox 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool ice_is_malicious_vf (struct ice_vf *vf , struct ice_mbx_data
*mbxdata );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• vf — the VF to check, bestie.
• mbxdata — data about the state of the mailbox.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So this function is literally detecting if a given VF might be malicious and attempting to overflow the PF mailbox. If that’s happening, it logs a warning message and ignores this event. periodt. It’s not here to start drama — it just notices the sketchy mailbox situation and moves on. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/virt/virtchnl.c 👑

and the whole function squad, same order, no skips — iykyk:

• ice_vc_vf_broadcast(9)
• ice_set_pfe_link(9)
• ice_vc_notify_vf_link_state(9)
• ice_vc_notify_link_state(9)
• ice_vc_notify_reset(9)
• ice_vc_send_msg_to_vf(9)
• ice_vc_get_ver_msg(9)
• ice_vc_get_vlan_caps(9)
• ice_vc_get_vf_res_msg(9)
• ice_vc_reset_vf_msg(9)
• ice_vc_isvalid_vsi_id(9)
• ice_vc_get_qos_caps(9)
• ice_vc_cfg_promiscuous_mode_msg(9)
• ice_vc_get_stats_msg(9)
• ice_can_vf_change_mac(9)
• ice_vc_ether_addr_type(9)
• ice_is_vc_addr_legacy(9)
• ice_is_vc_addr_primary(9)
• ice_vfhw_mac_add(9)
• ice_is_mc_lldp_eth_addr(9)
• ice_vc_can_add_mac(9)
• ice_vc_add_mac_addr(9)
• ice_is_legacy_umac_expired(9)
• ice_update_legacy_cached_mac(9)
• ice_vfhw_mac_del(9)
• ice_vc_del_mac_addr(9)
• ice_vc_handle_mac_addr_msg(9)
• ice_vc_add_mac_addr_msg(9)
• ice_vc_del_mac_addr_msg(9)
• ice_vf_vlan_offload_ena(9)
• ice_is_vlan_promisc_allowed(9)
• ice_vf_ena_vlan_promisc(9)
• ice_vf_dis_vlan_promisc(9)
• ice_vf_has_max_vlans(9)
• ice_vc_process_vlan_msg(9)
• ice_vc_add_vlan_msg(9)
• ice_vc_remove_vlan_msg(9)
• ice_vsi_is_rxq_crc_strip_dis(9)
• ice_vc_ena_vlan_stripping(9)
• ice_vc_dis_vlan_stripping(9)
• ice_vc_query_rxdid(9)
• ice_vf_init_vlan_stripping(9)
• ice_vf_outer_vlan_not_allowed(9)
• ice_vc_set_dvm_caps(9)
• ice_vc_set_svm_caps(9)
• ice_vc_get_offload_vlan_v2_caps(9)
• ice_vc_validate_vlan_tpid(9)
• ice_vc_is_valid_vlan(9)
• ice_vc_validate_vlan_filter_list(9)
• ice_vc_to_vlan(9)
• ice_vc_vlan_action(9)
• ice_vc_del_vlans(9)
• ice_vc_remove_vlan_v2_msg(9)
• ice_vc_add_vlans(9)
• ice_vc_validate_add_vlan_filter_list(9)
• ice_vc_add_vlan_v2_msg(9)
• ice_vc_valid_vlan_setting(9)
• ice_vc_valid_vlan_setting_msg(9)
• ice_vc_get_tpid(9)
• ice_vc_ena_vlan_offload(9)
• ice_vc_ena_vlan_stripping_v2_msg(9)
• ice_vc_dis_vlan_stripping_v2_msg(9)
• ice_vc_ena_vlan_insertion_v2_msg(9)
• ice_vc_dis_vlan_insertion_v2_msg(9)
• ice_virtchnl_set_dflt_ops(9)
• ice_vc_repr_add_mac(9)
• ice_vc_repr_del_mac(9)
• ice_virtchnl_set_repr_ops(9)
• ice_vc_process_vf_msg(9)

xoxo, your Unix bestie 💖 — source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i...; date: October 2026; page: ice_is_malicious_vf(9). periodt 💅