ibmvnic: schedule failover only if vioctl fails
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:05:45 +0000 (15:05 -0600)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:06:27 +0000 (17:06 -0800)
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>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c

index 29617a86b2995b882a5a74f7017d40339fdc1889..dee05a353dbd30cf85787fa572fa72e4d7d43d88 100644 (file)
@@ -5917,10 +5917,14 @@ static ssize_t failover_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
                   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");