[PATCH] ibmvnic: Continue with reset if set link down failed
From: Dany Madden <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-06 03:56:21
Subsystem:
ibm power sriov virtual nic device driver, linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Haren Myneni, Rick Lindsley, Madhavan Srinivasan, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
When an adapter is going thru a reset, it maybe in an unstable state that
makes a request to set link down fail. In such a case, the adapter needs
to continue on with reset to bring itself back to a stable state.
Fixes: ed651a10875f ("ibmvnic: Updated reset handling")
Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <redacted>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 9c6438d3b3a5..e4f01a7099a0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c@@ -1976,8 +1976,10 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter, rtnl_unlock(); rc = set_link_state(adapter, IBMVNIC_LOGICAL_LNK_DN); rtnl_lock(); - if (rc) - goto out; + if (rc) { + netdev_dbg(netdev, + "Setting link down failed rc=%d. Continue anyway\n", rc); + } if (adapter->state == VNIC_OPEN) { /* When we dropped rtnl, ibmvnic_open() got
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2.26.2