diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
index ee89779a9a6f09d3234d3e4bc9e9d8704e413b46..c508b75c3c09e172431532d67621a07a27b4c9c3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
@@ -574,36 +574,14 @@ static i40e_status i40e_calc_nvm_checksum(struct i40e_hw *hw,
 i40e_status i40e_update_nvm_checksum(struct i40e_hw *hw)
 {
 	i40e_status ret_code;
-	u16 checksum, checksum_sr;
+	u16 checksum;
 	__le16 le_sum;
 
 	ret_code = i40e_calc_nvm_checksum(hw, &checksum);
-	if (ret_code)
-		return ret_code;
-
 	le_sum = cpu_to_le16(checksum);
-	ret_code = i40e_write_nvm_aq(hw, 0x00, I40E_SR_SW_CHECKSUM_WORD,
-				     1, &le_sum, true);
-	if (ret_code)
-		return ret_code;
-
-	/* Due to changes in FW the SW is required to perform double SR-dump
-	 * in some cases. SR-dump is the process when internal shadow RAM is
-	 * dumped into flash bank. It is triggered by setting "last_command"
-	 * argument in i40e_write_nvm_aq function call.
-	 * Since FW 1.8 we need to calculate SR checksum again and update it
-	 * in flash if it is not equal to previously computed checksum.
-	 * This situation would occur only in FW >= 1.8
-	 */
-	ret_code = i40e_calc_nvm_checksum(hw, &checksum_sr);
-	if (ret_code)
-		return ret_code;
-	if (checksum_sr != checksum) {
-		le_sum = cpu_to_le16(checksum_sr);
-		ret_code = i40e_write_nvm_aq(hw, 0x00,
-					     I40E_SR_SW_CHECKSUM_WORD,
+	if (!ret_code)
+		ret_code = i40e_write_nvm_aq(hw, 0x00, I40E_SR_SW_CHECKSUM_WORD,
 					     1, &le_sum, true);
-	}
 
 	return ret_code;
 }