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authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-17 11:05:49 -0600
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2017-11-21 23:52:38 -0800
commitf72271e2a0ae4277d53c4053f5eed8bb346ba38a (patch)
tree98e29ef1f7e82d36c8136e34ac0684208062e979 /drivers
parent7b8edcc685b5e2c3c37aa13dc50a88e84a5bfef8 (diff)
downloadlinux-f72271e2a0ae4277d53c4053f5eed8bb346ba38a.tar.bz2
i40evf: 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 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. 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>
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 fe817e2b6fef..50864f99446d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static bool i40e_clean_tx_irq(struct i40e_vsi *vsi,
break;
/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
- read_barrier_depends();
+ smp_rmb();
i40e_trace(clean_tx_irq, tx_ring, tx_desc, tx_buf);
/* if the descriptor isn't done, no work yet to do */