diff --git a/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c b/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
index bbbd737210f9d0a1c541c0974ddadcee7c93d554..b975a2fad9530ff8dad979213d36d8e924fb49f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/net/octeon/octeon_mgmt.c
@@ -189,12 +189,19 @@ static void octeon_mgmt_clean_tx_buffers(struct octeon_mgmt *p)
 
 	mix_orcnt.u64 = cvmx_read_csr(CVMX_MIXX_ORCNT(port));
 	while (mix_orcnt.s.orcnt) {
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&p->tx_list.lock, flags);
+
+		mix_orcnt.u64 = cvmx_read_csr(CVMX_MIXX_ORCNT(port));
+
+		if (mix_orcnt.s.orcnt == 0) {
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&p->tx_list.lock, flags);
+			break;
+		}
+
 		dma_sync_single_for_cpu(p->dev, p->tx_ring_handle,
 					ring_size_to_bytes(OCTEON_MGMT_TX_RING_SIZE),
 					DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
 
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&p->tx_list.lock, flags);
-
 		re.d64 = p->tx_ring[p->tx_next_clean];
 		p->tx_next_clean =
 			(p->tx_next_clean + 1) % OCTEON_MGMT_TX_RING_SIZE;