From 61cef8f08c5121f1e7d192190c4f71a7eb6ec58f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian King Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c index c32c62462c84..07a4e6e13925 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 */ -- 2.20.1