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authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-17 11:05:49 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-30 08:37:24 +0000
commitb4ca98b7a8030a154478cfdf48fadb6ddbb2b04b (patch)
tree3689d2f26a057762ab14b8598c742175b5823f4f /drivers
parenta8e699dfca04191e209a63d484e347aa921422e2 (diff)
i40evf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
commit f72271e2a0ae4277d53c4053f5eed8bb346ba38a upstream. The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe driver, but the same issue exists with i40evf 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. 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
index 39db70a597ed..1ed27fcd5031 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static bool i40e_clean_tx_irq(struct i40e_ring *tx_ring, int budget)
break;
/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
- read_barrier_depends();
+ smp_rmb();
/* we have caught up to head, no work left to do */
if (tx_head == tx_desc)