Re: [PATCH net v5 1/2] veth: keep carrier off when resizing channels with a down peer

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 12:35:17 EST


Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:42:58 +0800 you wrote:
> veth_set_channels() temporarily turns carrier off while reconfiguring a
> running interface. It then turns carrier on for both ends without
> checking whether the peer is administratively up. If only one end is up,
> changing its channel counts therefore reports LOWER_UP even though the
> peer remains down.
>
> For example, after creating a pair with two RX and TX queues per end:
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v5,1/2] veth: keep carrier off when resizing channels with a down peer
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2d0219177934
- [net,v5,2/2] selftests: net: check veth carrier after changing channel counts
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/c1f04ea0aa0f

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