netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] netvsc: make sure and unregister datapath

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Date:   Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] netvsc: make sure and unregister datapath

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Mon,  7 Aug 2017 11:30:00 -0700

> Go back to switching datapath directly in the notifier callback.
> Otherwise datapath might not get switched on unregister.
> 
> No need for calling the NOTIFY_PEERS notifier since that is only for
> a gratitious ARP/ND packet; but that is not required with Hyper-V
> because both VF and synthetic NIC have the same MAC address.
> 
> Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
> Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>

Applied, thanks Stephen.