Commit a01ccc9c authored by Brian King's avatar Brian King Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

igbvf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744873

commit 1e1f9ca5 upstream.

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.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
parent 007bac43
......@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ 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)))
......
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