diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index 273eafdb1c5750e724eb70ec641aa971750273e6..a25bb6ea2ff44a1d6c3994aa7f9e2109ab57caa3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -1274,7 +1274,8 @@ int nicvf_open(struct net_device *netdev)
 	/* Configure receive side scaling and MTU */
 	if (!nic->sqs_mode) {
 		nicvf_rss_init(nic);
-		if (nicvf_update_hw_max_frs(nic, netdev->mtu))
+		err = nicvf_update_hw_max_frs(nic, netdev->mtu);
+		if (err)
 			goto cleanup;
 
 		/* Clear percpu stats */