ice_mbx_detect_malvf(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to ice_mbx_detect_malvf, straight outta the Kernel API Manual (section 9) 💅 — this one is literally here to Detect malicious VF in snapshot. No cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_mbx_detect_malvf (struct ice_hw *hw , struct ice_mbx_vf_info *vf_info , enum ice_mbx_snapshot_state *new_state , bool *is_malvf );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• hw — pointer to the HW struct 🫶
• vf_info — mailbox tracking structure for a VF 💌
• new_state — new algorithm state ✨
• is_malvf — boolean output to indicate if VF is malicious 👀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So picture this: this function keeps track of how many asynchronous messages each VF sends, and if that VF exceeds the permissible number of messages to send, it gets marked malicious. It's giving “snapshot behavior check” with main character energy, and honestly? Iconic. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_vf_mbx.c 📁
• ice_aq_send_msg_to_vf(9)
• ice_conv_link_speed_to_virtchnl(9)
• ice_mbx_reset_snapshot(9)
• ice_mbx_traverse(9)
• ice_mbx_vf_dec_trig_e830(9)
• ice_mbx_vf_clear_cnt_e830(9)
• ice_mbx_vf_state_handler(9)
• ice_mbx_clear_malvf(9)
• ice_mbx_init_vf_info(9)
• ice_mbx_init_snapshot(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, date: October 2026, and this is ice_mbx_detect_malvf(9) signing off, byeee 🫶✨