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