From bc46257bf4d825e56566d2710b56efdc913b0eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian King Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:45 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends commit ae0c585d93dfaf923d2c7eb44b2c3ab92854ea9b 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: 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/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c index 032f8ac06357..90ecc4b06462 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ 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))) -- 2.20.1