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ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:05:45 +0000 (11:05 -0600)
committerSasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Fri, 8 Dec 2017 23:01:07 +0000 (18:01 -0500)
[ Upstream commit ae0c585d93dfaf923d2c7eb44b2c3ab92854ea9b ]

The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe
driver, but the same issue exists with ixgbevf 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: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c

index 1d7b00b038a2ea8c3bdd9394ad3d4988ccee04c8..80029560dd11069919ced99f795014fbca579b5b 100644 (file)
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static bool ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgbevf_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->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(IXGBE_TXD_STAT_DD)))