ixgbe: Add a few safety nets for register writes and descriptor cleanups
There are possible times that a driver may fail to completely initialize, due to a buggy platform or a buggy kernel. In those cases, we'd rather fail gracefully instead of a panic. Add a few safety checks to some critical paths to try and prevent a panic in these corner-case situations. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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