ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa(9)

💖 ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa — program device with a security association 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa(9) page from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short and sweet and it's literally the function that hands your security association over to the device. no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa (struct net_device *dev , struct xfrm_state *xs
, struct netlink_ext_ack *extack );

it returns an int, bestie — that's the vibe. 👑

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — pointer to net device to program 🦋 this is the NIC you're stuffing the SA into, main character energy fr fr.
• xs — pointer to transformer state struct 💅 the actual security association, the whole point of the operation.
• extack — extack point to fill failure reason 😭 so if it goes sideways, this is where the reason gets written down. helpful little guy.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ipsec.c — that's the source, iykyk 📁

and the whole friend group, no one left out:

• ixgbevf_ipsec_set_pf_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_del_pf_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_restore(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_find_empty_idx(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_find_rx_state(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_parse_proto_keys(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_del_sa(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_tx(9)
• ixgbevf_ipsec_rx(9)
• ixgbevf_init_ipsec_offload(9)
• ixgbevf_stop_ipsec_offload(9)

ngl this page is tiny but she ate 🍓 three args, one int, zero drama. periodt.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 source is ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... (they truncated it on us, rip 💀), dated October 2026, and it's filed under ixgbevf_ipsec_add_sa(9). slay 🌈✨