From: Brian King Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:05:49 +0000 (-0600) Subject: i40evf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends X-Git-Tag: v4.15-rc1~15^2~3^2 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f72271e2a0ae4277d53c4053f5eed8bb346ba38a;p=users%2Fhch%2Fmisc.git 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 Signed-off-by: Brian King Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- 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 */