No Packet Reception after Interface is put down the first time until Packet is injected/transmitted

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Interface: TP-LINK TL-WN722N v3 (RTL8188EUS, 2357:010c)
Kernel: 5.11.0-42, 5.4.83
rtwifi: 70f3270 with fixes to allow compilation

1. plug in interface (wlan0)
2. airodump-ng wlan0 -> networks listed, rx works
3. ip link set wlan0 down
4. ip link set wlan0 up
5. airodump-ng wlan0 -> no networks shown, nothing rx'd
6. send injected packets, e.g. hcxdumptool --do_rcascan -i wlan0 -> networks listed, positive injection rate
7. after a CTRL-C hcxdumptool exits and puts interface down: airodump-ng wlan0 -> no networks shown, nothing rx'd
8. hcxdumptool --do_rcascan -i wlan0 but ended by killall -9 hcxdumptool (interface not put down)
9. airodump-ng wlan0 -> networks listed, rx works

Cross-check by running hcxdumptool --do_rcascan -i wlan0 --silent that doesn't send any packet and shows no reception.
Probably at 'interface up' something in the RX path is not activated again, that is when packets are sent.