Since VF has no need of firmware, we can skip further adminq init which
involves firmware operation, this patch fixes the testpmd segfault issue
when starting with i40e VF.
Fixes: d5e1a149362e ("net/i40e/base: check MAC type")
Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_adminq.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_adminq.c
b/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_adminq.c
index 221c327d1..bc9ef3c87 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_adminq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/base/i40e_adminq.c
@@ -673,6 +673,9 @@ enum i40e_status_code i40e_init_adminq(struct i40e_hw *hw)
if (ret_code != I40E_SUCCESS)
goto init_adminq_free_asq;
+ if (i40e_is_vf(hw))
+ goto init_adminq_exit;
+
/* There are some cases where the firmware may not be quite ready
* for AdminQ operations, so we retry the AdminQ setup a few times
* if we see timeouts in this first AQ call.
--
2.17.1
