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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
index 6080ebd9bd94..d39341e4ab37 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/nic/otx2_pf.c
@@ -394,7 +394,12 @@ static int otx2_forward_vf_mbox_msgs(struct otx2_nic *pf,
dst_mdev->msg_size = mbox_hdr->msg_size;
dst_mdev->num_msgs = num_msgs;
err = otx2_sync_mbox_msg(dst_mbox);
- if (err) {
+ /* Error code -EIO indicate there is a communication failure
+ * to the AF. Rest of the error codes indicate that AF processed
+ * VF messages and set the error codes in response messages
+ * (if any) so simply forward responses to VF.
+ */
+ if (err == -EIO) {
dev_warn(pf->dev,
"AF not responding to VF%d messages\n", vf);
/* restore PF mbase and exit */