qemu makes it possible to disable link at tap
which is not communicated to the guest but
causes all packets to be dropped.
When vhost-net is enabled, vhost needs to be aware of both the virtio
link_down and the peer link_down. we switch to userspace emulation when
either is down.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
Reported-by: pradeep <psuri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
hw/virtio-net.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/virtio-net.c b/hw/virtio-net.c
index 671d952..20cf680 100644
--- a/hw/virtio-net.c
+++ b/hw/virtio-net.c
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ static void virtio_net_vhost_status(VirtIONet *n, uint8_t
status)
if (!tap_get_vhost_net(n->nic->nc.peer)) {
return;
}
- if (!!n->vhost_started == virtio_net_started(n, status)) {
+ if (!!n->vhost_started == virtio_net_started(n, status) &&
+ !n->nic->nc.peer->link_down) {
return;
}
if (!n->vhost_started) {
--
1.7.3.2.91.g446ac
