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[SRU,B,E,2/2] (upstream) s390/qeth: fix false reporting of VNIC CHAR config failure

Message ID 1580126944-30768-3-git-send-email-frank.heimes@canonical.com
State New
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Series Fix misleading error message: Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed (LP: 1860523) | expand

Commit Message

Frank Heimes Jan. 27, 2020, 12:09 p.m. UTC 
From: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860523

commit 68c57bfd52836e31bff33e5e1fc64029749d2c35 upstream.

Symptom: Error message "Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed"
in dmesg whenever an OSA interface on z15 is set online.

The VNIC characteristics get re-programmed when setting a L2 device
online. This follows the selected 'wanted' characteristics - with the
exception that the INVISIBLE characteristic unconditionally gets
switched off.

For devices that don't support INVISIBLE (ie. OSA), the resulting
IO failure raises a noisy error message
("Configuring the VNIC characteristics failed").
For IQD, INVISIBLE is off by default anyways.

So don't unnecessarily special-case the INVISIBLE characteristic, and
thereby suppress the misleading error message on OSA devices.

Fixes: caa1f0b10d18 ("s390/qeth: add VNICC enable/disable support")

OriginalAuthor: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(backported from commit 68c57bfd52836e31bff33e5e1fc64029749d2c35)
[ frank-heimes: from 4.19-stable ]
Signed-off-by: Frank Heimes <frank.heimes@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
index dfa348a..e92b813 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -2453,7 +2453,6 @@  static void qeth_l2_vnicc_init(struct qeth_card *card)
 	error = qeth_l2_vnicc_recover_timeout(card, QETH_VNICC_LEARNING,
 					      timeout);
 	chars_tmp = card->options.vnicc.wanted_chars ^ QETH_VNICC_DEFAULT;
-	chars_tmp |= QETH_VNICC_BRIDGE_INVISIBLE;
 	chars_len = sizeof(card->options.vnicc.wanted_chars) * BITS_PER_BYTE;
 	for_each_set_bit(i, &chars_tmp, chars_len) {
 		vnicc = BIT(i);