[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 6/7] fm10k: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

Brian King brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Nov 16 15:37:54 UTC 2017


The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe
driver, but the same issue exists with fm10k 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 at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
index 9dffaba..103c0a7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ static bool fm10k_clean_tx_irq(struct fm10k_q_vector *q_vector,
 			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->flags & FM10K_TXD_FLAG_DONE))
-- 
1.8.3.1



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