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ixgbe: Reset interface after enabling SR-IOV

Enabling SR-IOV and then bringing the interface up was resulting in the PF
MAC addresses getting into a bad state. Specifically the MAC address was
enabled for both VF 0 and the PF. This resulted in some odd behaviors such
as VF 0 receiving a copy of the PFs traffic, which in turn enables the
ability for VF 0 to spoof the PF.

A workaround for this issue appears to be to bring up the interface first
and then enable SR-IOV as this way the reset is then triggered in the
existing code.

In order to correct this I have added a change to ixgbe_setup_tc where if
the interface is down we still will at least call ixgbe_reset so that the
MAC addresses for the device are reset to the correct pools.

Steps to reproduce issue:
modprobe ixgbe
echo 7 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.1/sriov_numvfs
ifconfig enp1s0f1 up
ethregs -s 1:00.1 | grep MPSAR | grep -v 00000000

Result:
MPSAR[0] 00000081
MPSAR[254] 00000001

Expected Result, behavior after patch:
MPSAR[0] 00000080
MPSAR[254] 00000080

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
Tested-by: Darin Miller <darin.j.miller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

authored by

Alexander Duyck and committed by
Jeff Kirsher
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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
··· 7920 7920 */ 7921 7921 if (netif_running(dev)) 7922 7922 ixgbe_close(dev); 7923 + else 7924 + ixgbe_reset(adapter); 7925 + 7923 7926 ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter); 7924 7927 7925 7928 #ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCB