* [PATCH] igc: fix netdev not re-attached after resume if interface is down
@ 2026-07-17 9:22 Philipp David
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From: Philipp David @ 2026-07-17 9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: intel-wired-lan, netdev
Cc: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, David S . Miller,
Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Philipp David, stable
__igc_resume() calls netif_device_attach() only inside the
netif_running() branch, so an interface that was down during suspend
is never re-attached on resume. It then stays in the not-present state
that __igc_shutdown() set via netif_device_detach(): ethtool reports
ENODEV and every attempt to bring the interface up fails the
netif_device_present() check in __dev_open() with -ENODEV, silently,
since __igc_resume() returns 0. Only reloading the driver recovers the
device.
This is easy to hit in practice because NetworkManager brings managed
interfaces down before sleep unless Wake-on-LAN is configured, making
the adapter unusable after every suspend/resume cycle with WoL
disabled.
Re-attach the netdev on every successful resume, as igb and e1000e do.
Fixes: 6f31d6b643a3 ("igc: Refactor runtime power management flow")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Philipp David <pd-lkml@3b.pm>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
index 2c9e2dfd8499..e777c2df0b73 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igc/igc_main.c
@@ -7586,11 +7586,13 @@ static int __igc_resume(struct device *dev, bool rpm)
err = __igc_open(netdev, true);
if (!rpm)
rtnl_unlock();
- if (!err)
- netif_device_attach(netdev);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
}
- return err;
+ netif_device_attach(netdev);
+
+ return 0;
}
static int igc_resume(struct device *dev)
--
2.54.0
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