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 <d...@linux.ibm.com>
---
 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
-- 
2.26.2

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