qeth: no recovery after layer mismatch (z/VM NICs) Depending on their definition in z/VM, virtual devices for z/VM VSWITCH or GuestLAN must be configured either in layer2 or in layer3 mode. If qeth detects a layer mismatch, device activation fails. Trying to recover from this error cannot help; thus scheduling a recovery should be avoided. In addition, since recovery is forbidden during online setting of a qeth device, existence of its network device is guaranteed for all dev_close() calls in qeth. The corresponding checks can be removed. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c index 51fde6f..6f1e303 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
@@ -1071,11 +1071,9 @@ dev_info(&card->gdev->dev, "Device successfully recovered!\n"); else { - if (card->dev) { - rtnl_lock(); - dev_close(card->dev); - rtnl_unlock(); - } + rtnl_lock(); + dev_close(card->dev); + rtnl_unlock(); dev_warn(&card->gdev->dev, "The qeth device driver " "failed to recover an error on the device\n"); } @@ -1129,11 +1127,9 @@ if (card->state == CARD_STATE_RECOVER) { rc = __qeth_l2_set_online(card->gdev, 1); if (rc) { - if (card->dev) { - rtnl_lock(); - dev_close(card->dev); - rtnl_unlock(); - } + rtnl_lock(); + dev_close(card->dev); + rtnl_unlock(); } } else rc = __qeth_l2_set_online(card->gdev, 0);