Bug 2051377

Summary:	Unable to switch vfio-pci to netdevice in policy
Product:	OpenShift Container Platform	Reporter:	Peng Liu <pliu>
Component:	Networking	Assignee:	Peng Liu <pliu>
Networking sub component:	SR-IOV	QA Contact:	zhaozhanqi <zzhao>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	Docs Contact:
Severity:	high
Priority:	high
Version:	4.10
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Target Release:	4.11.0
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Last Closed:	2022-08-10 10:47:24 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Peng Liu 2022-02-07 07:09:45 UTC

Description of problem:
Unable to change policy from vfio-pci to netdevice. When this is done the config daemon loops infinitely unable to recover.
Changing back to vfio-pci, removing the policy or changing the numVFs fixes this issue.

https://github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-operator/issues/244

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Apply a sriovnetworknodepolicy load vfio-pci driver to VFs
2. Update the policy by switching the 'deviceType' from 'vfio-pci' to 'netdevice'
3.

Actual results:
The operator cannot configure the VFs as expected.


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Peng Liu 2022-02-14 13:58:50 UTC

Fix https://github.com/openshift/sriov-network-operator/commit/c9cdc02f12f5179fd4f05715aaeee6d89026f6ad has been merged with https://github.com/openshift/sriov-network-operator/pull/620

Comment 3 zhaozhanqi 2022-04-07 09:44:36 UTC

this bug is blocked by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2070888

Comment 4 zhaozhanqi 2022-05-07 02:58:56 UTC

Verified this bug on 4.11.0-202205052327

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2022-08-10 10:47:24 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Important: OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.0 bug fix and security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:5069