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qed: Fix possible race for the link state value.

There's a possible race where driver can read link status in mid-transition
and see that virtual-link is up yet speed is 0. Since in this
mid-transition we're guaranteed to see a mailbox from MFW soon, we can
afford to treat this as link down.

Fixes: cc875c2e ("qed: Add link support")
Signed-off-by: Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru <Sudarsana.Kalluru@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <Michal.Kalderon@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sudarsana Reddy Kalluru 7 years ago
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      drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c

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drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c

@@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@ static void qed_mcp_handle_link_change(struct qed_hwfn *p_hwfn,
 		break;
 	default:
 		p_link->speed = 0;
+		p_link->link_up = 0;
 	}
 
 	if (p_link->link_up && p_link->speed)