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igbvf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:05:46 +0000 (11:05 -0600)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:46:04 +0000 (23:46 -0800)
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>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c

index 713e8df23744a46ea30824a014f875bd28d29fc5..4214c1519a879c9cb70cd1791b361657a5615d1e 100644 (file)
@@ -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)))