diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index 48eda16db1a7..9b5e11d3fb85 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -2402,7 +2402,18 @@ static ssize_t dev_id_show(struct device *dev,
 {
 	struct net_device *ndev = to_net_dev(dev);
 
-	if (ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
+	/*
+	 * ndev->dev_port will be equal to 0 in old kernel prior to commit
+	 * 9b8b2a323008 ("IB/ipoib: Use dev_port to expose network interface
+	 * port numbers") Zero was chosen as special case for user space
+	 * applications to fallback and query dev_id to check if it has
+	 * different value or not.
+	 *
+	 * Don't print warning in such scenario.
+	 *
+	 * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#L358
+	 */
+	if (ndev->dev_port && ndev->dev_id == ndev->dev_port)
 		netdev_info_once(ndev,
 			"\"%s\" wants to know my dev_id. Should it look at dev_port instead? See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net for more info.\n",
 			current->comm);