A possible faulty hardware might interrupt with a status of 0xffffffff which may kernel panic if sky2 driver tries to handle it. Detecting this problem may avoid kernel panic.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Williams <sam8...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c index e09a8c6..43fe2f3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/sky2.c @@ -3049,8 +3049,17 @@ static int sky2_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int work_limit) int work_done = 0; u16 idx; - if (unlikely(status & Y2_IS_ERROR)) + if (unlikely(status & Y2_IS_ERROR)) { + if (status == 0xFFFFFFFF) { + dev_err(&hw->pdev->dev, + "fatal hardware inturrupt error\n"); + napi_complete(napi); + napi_disable(&hw->napi); + return 0; + } sky2_err_intr(hw, status); + } + if (status & Y2_IS_IRQ_PHY1) sky2_phy_intr(hw, 0); -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/