Commit a8e699df authored by Brian King's avatar Brian King Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

commit ae0c585d upstream.

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.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2f7de4d5
......@@ -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)))
......
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