Re: [PATCH v2] hv_netvsc: Fix a network regression after ifdown/ifup

[David Miller]

From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 21:32:51 +0000

> 
> Recently people reported the NIC stops working after
> "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". It turns out in this case the TX queues are not
> enabled, after the refactoring of the common detach logic: when the NIC
> has sub-channels, usually we enable all the TX queues after all
> sub-channels are set up: see rndis_set_subchannel() ->
> netif_device_attach(), but in the case of "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0" where
> the number of channels doesn't change, we also must make sure the TX queues
> are enabled. The patch fixes the regression.
> 
> Fixes: 7b2ee50c0cd5 ("hv_netvsc: common detach logic")
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable.