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authorEduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>2018-01-05 11:42:16 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-03-03 12:17:10 +0300
commit8094b1a3fa737e7f3515ae8b5286c65964d1a51f (patch)
treefb7685a406d79184b164fef5caeedccd93f39076
parent4108c7767f28ed381d7c70a5a89884b97d0c34cc (diff)
downloadlinux-8094b1a3fa737e7f3515ae8b5286c65964d1a51f.tar.xz
xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load
[ Upstream commit b707fda2df4070785d0fa8a278aa13944c5f51f8 ] When loading the module after unloading it, the network interface would not be enabled and thus wouldn't have a backend counterpart and unable to be used by the guest. The guest would face errors like: [root@guest ~]# ethtool -i eth0 Cannot get driver information: No such device [root@guest ~]# ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found This patch initializes the state of the netfront device whenever it is loaded manually, this state would communicate the netback to create its device and establish the connection between them. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netfront.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index e76f46edee08..824ae807ea80 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1358,6 +1358,7 @@ static struct net_device *xennet_create_dev(struct xenbus_device *dev)
netif_carrier_off(netdev);
+ xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitialising);
return netdev;
exit: