[PATCH] net/iavf: fix dead store on reset path

Ciara Loftus ciara.loftus at intel.com
Fri Sep 25 10:58:32 CEST 2026


When dev_start fails during reset recovery, the code defers the start
to the next link-up event and resets ret to 0 to avoid treating this
as an error. This is redundant since ret is unconditionally
overwritten by the return value of iavf_post_reset_reconfig()
immediately after. Remove the dead assignment.

Fixes: 9aac2219dc2a ("net/iavf: defer device start when PF VSI not ready")

Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
index a8daa507bb..7915aef348 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
@@ -3513,7 +3513,6 @@ iavf_handle_hw_reset(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, bool vf_initiated_reset)
 				    ret);
 			vf->start_pending = true;
 			dev->data->dev_started = 0;
-			ret = 0;
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.43.0



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