From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:54:15 -0700
> If the accelerated networking SRIOV VF device has lost carrier
> use the synthetic network device which is available as backup
> path. This is a rare case since if VF link goes down, normally
> the VMBus device will also loose external connectivity as well.
> But if the communication is between two VM's on the same host
> the VMBus device will still work.
>
> Reported-by: "Shah, Ashish N" <ashish.n.s...@intel.com>
> Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
