The skge driver will deadlock if gets a transmit timeout
because the netif_tx_lock() is already held.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 drivers/net/skge.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- skge-dev.orig/drivers/net/skge.c
+++ skge-dev/drivers/net/skge.c
@@ -2576,7 +2576,11 @@ static int skge_down(struct net_device *
        skge_led(skge, LED_MODE_OFF);
 
        netif_poll_disable(dev);
+
+       netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
        skge_tx_clean(dev);
+       netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
+
        skge_rx_clean(skge);
 
        kfree(skge->rx_ring.start);
@@ -2721,7 +2725,6 @@ static void skge_tx_clean(struct net_dev
        struct skge_port *skge = netdev_priv(dev);
        struct skge_element *e;
 
-       netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
        for (e = skge->tx_ring.to_clean; e != skge->tx_ring.to_use; e = 
e->next) {
                struct skge_tx_desc *td = e->desc;
                skge_tx_free(skge, e, td->control);
@@ -2730,7 +2733,6 @@ static void skge_tx_clean(struct net_dev
 
        skge->tx_ring.to_clean = e;
        netif_wake_queue(dev);
-       netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
 }
 
 static void skge_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)

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