From: Jian Shen <shenjian15@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 283847e3ef6dbf79bf67083b5ce7b8033e8b6f34 ] It's unnecessary to push link state to unalive VF, and the VF will query link state from PF when it being start works. Fixes: 18b6e31f8bf4 ("net: hns3: PF add support for pushing link status to VFs") Signed-off-by: Jian Shen <shenjian15@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c index 5d1615e27a1c..c8c99ab60ec1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge_main.c @@ -3384,6 +3384,12 @@ static int hclge_set_vf_link_state(struct hnae3_handle *handle, int vf, link_state_old = vport->vf_info.link_state; vport->vf_info.link_state = link_state; + /* return success directly if the VF is unalive, VF will + * query link state itself when it starts work. + */ + if (!test_bit(HCLGE_VPORT_STATE_ALIVE, &vport->state)) + return 0; + ret = hclge_push_vf_link_status(vport); if (ret) { vport->vf_info.link_state = link_state_old; -- 2.35.1