This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5: E-switch, Avoid extack error log for disabled vport
to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx5-e-switch-avoid-extack-error-log-for-disable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7c2a4f371f55930d03557b0b557085d7fb7946dc
Author: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 2 12:41:28 2020 +0200
net/mlx5: E-switch, Avoid extack error log for disabled vport
[ Upstream commit ae35859445607f7f18dd4f332749219cd636ed59 ]
When E-switch vport is disabled, querying its hardware address is
unsupported.
Avoid setting extack error log message in such case.
Fixes: f099fde16db3 ("net/mlx5: E-switch, Support querying port function mac address")
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
index 6e6a9a5639928..e8e6294c7ccae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch.c
@@ -1902,8 +1902,6 @@ int mlx5_devlink_port_function_hw_addr_get(struct devlink *devlink,
ether_addr_copy(hw_addr, vport->info.mac);
*hw_addr_len = ETH_ALEN;
err = 0;
- } else {
- NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Eswitch vport is disabled");
}
mutex_unlock(&esw->state_lock);
return err;
