On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:10 AM Sukadev Bhattiprolu
<suka...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> If two or more instances of 'ip link set' commands race and first one
> already brings the interface up (or down), the subsequent instances
> can simply return without redoing the up/down operation.
>
> Fixes: ed651a10875f ("ibmvnic: Updated reset handling")
> Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdha...@in.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Abdul Haleem <abdha...@in.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <suka...@linux.ibm.com>
>
> ---
> Changelog[v2] For consistency with ibmvnic_open() use "goto out" and return
> from end of function.
Did you find the code path that triggers this?
In v1 we discussed how the usual ip link path should not call the
driver twice based on IFF_UP.
