From: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.vo...@broadcom.com>

Debug firmware commands are not supported on VFs to read registers.
This patch avoids logging unnecessary access_denied error on VFs
when user calls ETHTOOL_GREGS.

By returning error in get_regs_len() method on the VF, the get_regs()
method will not be called.

Fixes: b5d600b027eb ("bnxt_en: Add support for 'ethtool -d'")
Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.vo...@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.c...@broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
index 6c75101..fecdfd8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
@@ -1322,6 +1322,9 @@ static int bnxt_get_regs_len(struct net_device *dev)
        struct bnxt *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
        int reg_len;
 
+       if (!BNXT_PF(bp))
+               return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
        reg_len = BNXT_PXP_REG_LEN;
 
        if (bp->fw_cap & BNXT_FW_CAP_PCIE_STATS_SUPPORTED)
-- 
1.8.3.1

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