It's unnecessary to push link state to unalive VF, and the VF will
query link state from PF when it being start works.
Fixes: ddb2ee58b754 ("net: hns3: PF add support for pushing link status to VFs")
Signed-off-by: Jian Shen <shenjian15@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Guangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
link_state_old = vport->vf_info.link_state;
vport->vf_info.link_state = link_state;
+ /* return success directly if the VF is unalive, VF will
+ * query link state itself when it starts work.
+ */
+ if (!test_bit(HCLGE_VPORT_STATE_ALIVE, &vport->state))
+ return 0;
+
ret = hclge_push_vf_link_status(vport);
if (ret) {
vport->vf_info.link_state = link_state_old;