From a30134053c3c4a14049037ee41b74ab3fe57cf9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:40:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ixgbe: Fix return value from macvlan filter function

The function to set the macvlan filter should return success or failure
instead of the index of the filter.  The message processing function was
misinterpreting the index as a non-zero return code indicating failure and
NACKing MAC filter set messages that actually succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
index 96876b7442b12..8bdb341c14bf7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c
@@ -742,7 +742,8 @@ static int ixgbe_set_vf_macvlan_msg(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
 		e_warn(drv,
 		       "VF %d has requested a MACVLAN filter but there is no space for it\n",
 		       vf);
-	return err;
+
+	return err < 0;
 }
 
 static int ixgbe_negotiate_vf_api(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
-- 
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