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

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