ibmvnic: schedule failover only if vioctl fails
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:05:45 +0000 (15:05 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 2 Mar 2022 10:47:59 +0000 (11:47 +0100)
commit954997aeb8f294215b94c2d8e6839649f10e40ee
treef3d93fabb6df6fa48f993742db5bc4801886aeeb
parent117a5a7f019e92ce357f43917afed426f304e71e
ibmvnic: schedule failover only if vioctl fails

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