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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] e1000e: stop cleaning when we reach
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:33:55 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Terry Loftin <terry.loftin@hp.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:01:52 -0600

> Tx ring buffers after tx_ring->next_to_use are volatile and could
> change, possibly causing a crash.  Stop cleaning when we hit
> tx_ring->next_to_use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Terry Loftin <terry.loftin@hp.com>

Intel folks please look carefully at this fix.  I want to
get it into net-2.6 if it's correct.

Thanks.