diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e25fb3a8633a..705102abff1f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a68ea775ad24ff403437c967628d2b9ce531ce48
+refs/heads/master: 7ea9655f8a4ccefcd8fdea7eb4fc5dab98e1a7ba
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c b/trunk/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c
index 3d73f2070b94..67e06fd9fc45 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c
@@ -190,6 +190,17 @@ static int e1000_get_settings(struct net_device *netdev,
 static u32 e1000_get_link(struct net_device *netdev)
 {
 	struct e1000_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
+	struct e1000_mac_info *mac = &adapter->hw.mac;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the link is not reported up to netdev, interrupts are disabled,
+	 * and so the physical link state may have changed since we last
+	 * looked. Set get_link_status to make sure that the true link
+	 * state is interrogated, rather than pulling a cached and possibly
+	 * stale link state from the driver.
+	 */
+	if (!netif_carrier_ok(netdev))
+		mac->get_link_status = 1;
 
 	return e1000_has_link(adapter);
 }