4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6b1385cc251ae9f26b720fa5c8c00bf19af336ae ] When doing reset, netdev has not been brought up is not an error, it means that we do not need do the stop operation, so just return zero. Fixes: 76ad4f0ee747 ("net: hns3: Add support of HNS3 Ethernet Driver for hip08 SoC") Signed-off-by: Huazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peng Li <lipeng321@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3_enet.c @@ -3422,7 +3422,7 @@ static int hns3_reset_notify_down_enet(s struct net_device *ndev = kinfo->netdev; if (!netif_running(ndev)) - return -EIO; + return 0; return hns3_nic_net_stop(ndev); }