From: Yohei Kojima This patch fixes the edge case behavior on ifup/ifdown and linking/unlinking two netdevsim interfaces: 1. unlink two interfaces netdevsim1 and netdevsim2 2. ifdown netdevsim1 3. ifup netdevsim1 4. link two interfaces netdevsim1 and netdevsim2 5. (Now two interfaces are linked in terms of netdevsim peer, but carrier state of the two interfaces remains DOWN.) This inconsistent behavior is caused by the current implementation, which only cares about the "link, then ifup" order, not "ifup, then link" order. This patch fixes the inconsistency by calling netif_carrier_on() when two netdevsim interfaces are linked. This patch solves buggy behavior on NetworkManager-based systems which causes the netdevsim test to fail with the following error: # timeout set to 600 # selftests: drivers/net/netdevsim: peer.sh # 2025/12/25 00:54:03 socat[9115] W address is opened in read-write mode but only supports read-only # 2025/12/25 00:56:17 socat[9115] W connect(7, AF=2 192.168.1.1:1234, 16): Connection timed out # 2025/12/25 00:56:17 socat[9115] E TCP:192.168.1.1:1234: Connection timed out # expected 3 bytes, got 0 # 2025/12/25 00:56:17 socat[9109] W exiting on signal 15 not ok 13 selftests: drivers/net/netdevsim: peer.sh # exit=1 This patch also fixes timeout on TCP Fast Open (TFO) test because the test also depends on netdevsim. Fixes: 1a8fed52f7be ("netdevsim: set the carrier when the device goes up") Signed-off-by: Yohei Kojima --- drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c index 70e8c38ddad6..fa94c680c92a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c @@ -332,6 +332,9 @@ static ssize_t link_device_store(const struct bus_type *bus, const char *buf, si rcu_assign_pointer(nsim_a->peer, nsim_b); rcu_assign_pointer(nsim_b->peer, nsim_a); + netif_carrier_on(dev_a); + netif_carrier_on(dev_b); + out_err: put_net(ns_b); put_net(ns_a); @@ -381,6 +384,9 @@ static ssize_t unlink_device_store(const struct bus_type *bus, const char *buf, if (!peer) goto out_put_netns; + netif_carrier_off(dev); + netif_carrier_off(peer->netdev); + err = 0; RCU_INIT_POINTER(nsim->peer, NULL); RCU_INIT_POINTER(peer->peer, NULL); -- 2.51.2