[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 16/17] net/qede/base: fix return code to align with FW

[Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>]

This change aligns the PF behavior with that of the L2-fw, so that flows
(to remove an incorrect MAC) for PF and VF could remain the same.

Fixes: 86a2265e59d7 ("qede: add SRIOV support")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>
---
 drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_sriov.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_sriov.c b/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_sriov.c
index 18458cf..b1e26d6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_sriov.c
@@ -3419,12 +3419,13 @@ static void ecore_iov_vf_mbx_ucast_filter(struct ecore_hwfn *p_hwfn,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	/* Update shadow copy of the VF configuration */
+	/* Update shadow copy of the VF configuration. In case shadow indicates
+	 * the action should be blocked return success to VF to imitate the
+	 * firmware behaviour in such case.
+	 */
 	if (ecore_iov_vf_update_unicast_shadow(p_hwfn, vf, &params) !=
-	    ECORE_SUCCESS) {
-		status = PFVF_STATUS_FAILURE;
+	    ECORE_SUCCESS)
 		goto out;
-	}
 
 	/* Determine if the unicast filtering is acceptible by PF */
 	if ((p_bulletin->valid_bitmap & (1 << VLAN_ADDR_FORCED)) &&
-- 
1.7.10.3