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authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-17 18:05:46 +0100
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2017-11-22 08:46:04 +0100
commit1e1f9ca546556e508d021545861f6b5fc75a95fe (patch)
tree89684ebc4de1cdd0337c33965be5753b33a180dc /drivers/net
parentixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends (diff)
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igbvf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe driver, but the same issue exists with igbvf as well, as the code is very similar. read_barrier_depends is not sufficient to ensure loads following it are not speculatively loaded out of order by the CPU, which can result in stale data being loaded, causing potential system crashes. Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
index 713e8df23744..4214c1519a87 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ static bool igbvf_clean_tx_irq(struct igbvf_ring *tx_ring)
break;
/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
- read_barrier_depends();
+ smp_rmb();
/* if DD is not set pending work has not been completed */
if (!(eop_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(E1000_TXD_STAT_DD)))