It has been noticed that under stress the lan743x driver will
sometimes hang or cause a kernel panic. It has been noticed
that returning '0' instead of 'weight' fixes this issue.

fixes: rare kernel panic under heavy traffic load.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Whitehead <bryan.whiteh...@microchip.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
index 867cddb..ca33ade 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/lan743x_main.c
@@ -1672,7 +1672,7 @@ static int lan743x_tx_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, 
int weight)
                netif_wake_queue(adapter->netdev);
        }
 
-       if (!napi_complete_done(napi, weight))
+       if (!napi_complete_done(napi, 0))
                goto done;
 
        /* enable isr */
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ static int lan743x_tx_napi_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, 
int weight)
        lan743x_csr_read(adapter, INT_STS);
 
 done:
-       return weight;
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static void lan743x_tx_ring_cleanup(struct lan743x_tx *tx)
-- 
2.7.4

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