That it's not a common issue, and possibly NIC related, I myself have several dual port Mellanox NICs and never saw that problem, I did see the problem with v6.10.2 where I could not set a Mellanox NIC as eth0, but of course cannot exclude your issue as some kind of bug.
Well, this could explain why I've never seen that, I use all my Mellanox NICs as the last NICs in the list, I'll see if I can test that when I have some time.