This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: hns3: clear VF down state bit before request link status to the 5.11-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-hns3-clear-vf-down-state-bit-before-request-link.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a7eb33d7553ff58671bb65debb22fe78758932e2 Author: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 6 21:10:43 2021 +0800 net: hns3: clear VF down state bit before request link status [ Upstream commit ed7bedd2c3ca040f1e8ea02c6590a93116b1ec78 ] Currently, the VF down state bit is cleared after VF sending link status request command. There is problem that when VF gets link status replied from PF, the down state bit may still set as 1. In this case, the link status replied from PF will be ignored and always set VF link status to down. To fix this problem, clear VF down state bit before VF requests link status. Fixes: e2cb1dec9779 ("net: hns3: Add HNS3 VF HCL(Hardware Compatibility Layer) Support") Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c index 674b3a22e91f..3bd7bc794677 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3vf/hclgevf_main.c @@ -2575,14 +2575,14 @@ static int hclgevf_ae_start(struct hnae3_handle *handle) { struct hclgevf_dev *hdev = hclgevf_ae_get_hdev(handle); + clear_bit(HCLGEVF_STATE_DOWN, &hdev->state); + hclgevf_reset_tqp_stats(handle); hclgevf_request_link_info(hdev); hclgevf_update_link_mode(hdev); - clear_bit(HCLGEVF_STATE_DOWN, &hdev->state); - return 0; }