cxgb4: propagate link initialization errors to .ndo_open's callers

Signed-off-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c b/drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
index 6bfe7d65ef17..eb1492f4df2d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
@@ -2512,9 +2512,10 @@ static int cxgb_open(struct net_device *dev)
         }
 
         dev->real_num_tx_queues = pi->nqsets;
-        link_start(dev);
-        netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
-        return 0;
+        err = link_start(dev);
+        if (!err)
+                netif_tx_start_all_queues(dev);
+        return err;
 }
 
 static int cxgb_close(struct net_device *dev)