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authorThomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-05-24 14:37:53 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-05-25 16:32:48 -0400
commiteb110410b9f6477726026669f3f0c0567e8241e6 (patch)
tree02ae95f908d6d915c7833e68229d638cf150018b /tools
parentd2f30f5172603bacaf34f0fdb021c25ad1915b05 (diff)
downloadlinux-eb110410b9f6477726026669f3f0c0567e8241e6.tar.bz2
ibmvnic: Fix partial success login retries
In its current state, the driver will handle backing device login in a loop for a certain number of retries while the device returns a partial success, indicating that the driver may need to try again using a smaller number of resources. The variable it checks to continue retrying may change over the course of operations, resulting in reallocation of resources but exits without sending the login attempt. Guard against this by introducing a boolean variable that will retain the state indicating that the driver needs to reattempt login with backing device firmware. Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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