On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 08:01:50 +0900
Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 03:19:41PM -0400, Thomas Walker wrote:
> > Upon updating some internal kernels from 4.14.18 to 4.14.49, our hyper-v 
> > guests failed to bring up network interfaces on boot, logging "A link 
> > change request failed with some changes committed already. Interface eth0 
> > may have been left with an inconsistent configuration, please check."  
> > Running 'ifconfig eth0 up' appears to fix the problem temporarily so I went 
> > about bisecting which landed on:
> > 
> > commit be9c798d0d13ae609a91177323ac816545c39d28
> > Author: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> > Date:   Mon May 14 15:32:18 2018 -0700
> > 
> >     hv_netvsc: common detach logic
> >     
> >     [ Commit 7b2ee50c0cd513a176a26a71f2989facdd75bfea upstream. ]
> >     
> >     Make common function for detaching internals of device
> >     during changes to MTU and RSS. Make sure no more packets
> >     are transmitted and all packets have been received before
> >     doing device teardown.
> > 
> >     Change the wait logic to be common and use usleep_range().
> > 
> >     Changes transmit enabling logic so that transmit queues are disabled
> >     during the period when lower device is being changed. And enabled
> >     only after sub channels are setup. This avoids issue where it could
> >     be that a packet was being sent while subchannel was not initialized.
> > 
> >     Fixes: 8195b1396ec8 ("hv_netvsc: fix deadlock on hotplug")
> >     Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> >     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > 
> > The removal of which does indeed fix the problem.  That led me to:
> > 
> > commit 52acf73b6e9a6962045feb2ba5a8921da2201915
> > Author: Dexuan Cui <de...@microsoft.com>
> > Date:   Wed Jun 6 21:32:51 2018 +0000
> > 
> >     hv_netvsc: Fix a network regression after ifdown/ifup
> >     
> >     Recently people reported the NIC stops working after
> >     "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". It turns out in this case the TX queues are 
> > not
> >     enabled, after the refactoring of the common detach logic: when the NIC
> >     has sub-channels, usually we enable all the TX queues after all
> >     sub-channels are set up: see rndis_set_subchannel() ->
> >     netif_device_attach(), but in the case of "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0" where
> >     the number of channels doesn't change, we also must make sure the TX 
> > queues
> >     are enabled. The patch fixes the regression.
> >     
> >     Fixes: 7b2ee50c0cd5 ("hv_netvsc: common detach logic")
> >     Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <de...@microsoft.com>
> >     Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
> >     Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
> >     Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> > 
> > Which sounded very promising, but does not seem to fully fix the issue.  
> > Doing some more digging, I was able to determine that the message coincides 
> > with 'ip link set dev eth0 mtu 1300 up' very shortly (>~1 second) after the 
> > hv_netvsc driver loads.  If I delay the mtu change until well after the 
> > driver loads, everything works fine.  If I unload hv_netvsc and then reload 
> > it and apply the mtu change immediately, the failure re-occurs.  So 
> > something is racy here, and the above doesn't entirely address it.
> > 
> > I'm happy to test out any suggested patches and/or do additional debugging 
> > if anyone has any suggestions.
> > 
> > (oh, and I did also try 4.18-rc1 and the problem still persists)  
> 
> Always cc: the authors of the patch you are having problems with, along
> with the mailing list for the networking subsystem, so that the right
> people know to look at this.

Let me take a look at it, and log it into the bug system.
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