xen-netfront: enable device after manual module load
authorEduardo Otubo <otubo@redhat.com>
Fri, 5 Jan 2018 08:42:16 +0000 (09:42 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 3 Mar 2018 09:24:36 +0000 (10:24 +0100)
commit84ada11975b7fd200f5ca6e263c8060ca4d636d9
tree2a71842aaf2a5a5b34a16646423ba937307e4fe1
parent0e29d0bac356de0cd04279ecbcd0384b4a4056b8
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@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/xen-netfront.c