Multiple threads performing a transmit can race into
the spidernet tx ring cleanup code. This puts the 
relevant check under a lock.

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: James K Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Jens Osterkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Kou Ishizaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

----
 drivers/net/spider_net.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.20-git4/drivers/net/spider_net.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-git4.orig/drivers/net/spider_net.c     2007-02-09 
17:30:13.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.20-git4/drivers/net/spider_net.c  2007-02-09 17:37:41.000000000 
-0600
@@ -767,8 +767,12 @@ spider_net_release_tx_chain(struct spide
        unsigned long flags;
        int status;
 
-       while (chain->tail != chain->head) {
+       while (1) {
                spin_lock_irqsave(&chain->lock, flags);
+               if (chain->tail == chain->head) {
+                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chain->lock, flags);
+                       return 0;
+               }
                descr = chain->tail;
                hwdescr = descr->hwdescr;
 
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