[PATCH 5.15 077/139] ibmvnic: schedule failover only if vioctl fails

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-02-28T17:54:59Z

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>

commit 277f2bb14361790a70e4b3c649e794b75a91a597 upstream.

If client is unable to initiate a failover reset via H_VIOCTL hcall, then
it should schedule a failover reset as a last resort. Otherwise, there is
no need to do a last resort.

Fixes: 334c42414729 ("ibmvnic: improve failover sysfs entry")
Reported-by: Cris Forno <cforno12@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220221210545.115283-1-drt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -5733,10 +5733,14 @@ static ssize_t failover_store(struct dev
be64_to_cpu(session_token));
rc = plpar_hcall_norets(H_VIOCTL, adapter->vdev->unit_address,
H_SESSION_ERR_DETECTED, session_token, 0, 0);
- if (rc)
+ if (rc) {
netdev_err(netdev,
"H_VIOCTL initiated failover failed, rc %ld\n",
rc);
+ goto last_resort;
+ }
+
+ return count;

last_resort:
netdev_dbg(netdev, "Trying to send CRQ_CMD, the last resort\n");