[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] net/netvsc: initialize link state

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

If application is using link state interrupt, the correct link state
needs to be filled in when device is started. This is similar to
how virtio updates link information.

Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Reported-by: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mohammed Gamal <mgamal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
Putting on same email thread as original submission
v2 - new patch that does initialization at start
     added tested-by and fixes tag

 drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c
index c79f924379fe..564620748daf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netvsc/hn_ethdev.c
@@ -823,6 +823,10 @@ hn_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	if (error)
 		hn_rndis_set_rxfilter(hv, 0);
 
+	/* Initialize Link state */
+	if (error == 0)
+		hn_dev_link_update(dev, 0);
+
 	return error;
 }
 
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2.20.1