FAILED: patch "[PATCH] i40e: Fix to stop tx_timeout recovery if GLOBR fails" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 57c942bc3bef0970f0b21f8e0998e76a900ea80d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:19:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] i40e: Fix to stop tx_timeout recovery if GLOBR fails

When a tx_timeout fires, the PF attempts to recover by incrementally
resetting.  First we try a PFR, then CORER and finally a GLOBR.  If the
GLOBR fails, then we keep hitting the tx_timeout and incrementing the
recovery level and issuing dmesgs, which is both annoying to the user
and accomplishes nothing.

If the GLOBR fails, then we're pretty much totally hosed, and there's
not much else we can do to recover, so this makes it such that we just
kill the VSI and stop hitting the tx_timeout in such a case.

Fixes: 41c445ff0f48 ("i40e: main driver core")
Signed-off-by: Alan Brady <alan.brady@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Palczewski <mateusz.palczewski@intel.com>
Tested-by: Gurucharan <gurucharanx.g@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel)
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index b36bf9c3e1e4..9f1d5de7bf16 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -384,7 +384,9 @@ static void i40e_tx_timeout(struct net_device *netdev, unsigned int txqueue)
 		set_bit(__I40E_GLOBAL_RESET_REQUESTED, pf->state);
 		break;
 	default:
-		netdev_err(netdev, "tx_timeout recovery unsuccessful\n");
+		netdev_err(netdev, "tx_timeout recovery unsuccessful, device is in non-recoverable state.\n");
+		set_bit(__I40E_DOWN_REQUESTED, pf->state);
+		set_bit(__I40E_VSI_DOWN_REQUESTED, vsi->state);
 		break;
 	}