Since commit 59fe5e17d930 ("vhost: propagate set features handling error"), vhost does not allow to set different features without reset.
The virito-user driver fails to reset the device in below commit. To fix, we send the reset message as stopping the device. Fixes: c12a26ee209e ("net/virtio-user: fix not properly reset device") Reported-by: Lei Yao <lei.a....@intel.com> Reported-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei....@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com> --- v2: Correct commit reference number format. drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c index 7a70c18..3b5f737 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_user/virtio_user_dev.c @@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ int virtio_user_stop_device(struct virtio_user_dev *dev) for (i = 0; i < dev->max_queue_pairs; ++i) dev->ops->enable_qp(dev, i, 0); + if (dev->ops->send_request(dev, VHOST_USER_RESET_OWNER, NULL) < 0) { + PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO, "Failed to reset the device\n"); + return -1; + } + return 0; } -- 2.7.4