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r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.
authorFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Thu, 3 Feb 2011 16:27:52 +0000 (17:27 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:17:39 +0000 (14:17 -0700)
commit30b7cb312baeab0504e4ba1bc5b324abf7afcf68
treecb59ca1e2aafee0d1eee5eb74dad781be4a843bb
parentbe70b4e2c60c2d7e03c3193cadd1cb9eddb5e4bc
r8169: prevent RxFIFO induced loops in the irq handler.

commit f60ac8e7ab7cbb413a0131d5665b053f9f386526 upstream.

While the RxFIFO interruption is masked for most 8168, nothing prevents
it to appear in the irq status word. This is no excuse to crash.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Cc: Hayes <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/r8169.c