Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio: fix uninitialized duplex mode

["Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Chenbo Xia
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 1:15 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/virtio: fix uninitialized duplex mode
> 
> When virtio front-end initializes, the duplex mode should be set
> unknown before reading any duplex mode information from configuration
> space. This patch fixes the issue that duplex mode is by default set
> to zero, which equals ETH_LINK_HALF_DUPLEX. This will lead to duplex
> mode being half duplex when fron-end does not have the feature
> named VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX.
> 
> Fixes: 1357b4b36246 ("net/virtio: support Virtio link speed feature")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> index 72d3dda71f..9061db4e41 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
> @@ -1901,6 +1901,7 @@ eth_virtio_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev)
>  	if (ret < 0)
>  		return ret;
>  	hw->speed = speed;
> +	hw->duplex = DUPLEX_UNKNOWN;
> 
>  	/* Allocate memory for storing MAC addresses */
>  	eth_dev->data->mac_addrs = rte_zmalloc("virtio",
> --
> 2.17.1

Applied to next-virtio/main. Thanks!