4.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "hpreg@vmware.com" hpreg@vmware.com
[ Upstream commit f3002c1374fb2367c9d8dbb28852791ef90d2bac ]
The gen bits must be read first from (resp. written last to) DMA memory. The proper way to enforce this on Linux is to call dma_rmb() (resp. dma_wmb()).
Signed-off-by: Regis Duchesne hpreg@vmware.com Acked-by: Ronak Doshi doshir@vmware.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c @@ -369,6 +369,11 @@ vmxnet3_tq_tx_complete(struct vmxnet3_tx
gdesc = tq->comp_ring.base + tq->comp_ring.next2proc; while (VMXNET3_TCD_GET_GEN(&gdesc->tcd) == tq->comp_ring.gen) { + /* Prevent any &gdesc->tcd field from being (speculatively) + * read before (&gdesc->tcd)->gen is read. + */ + dma_rmb(); + completed += vmxnet3_unmap_pkt(VMXNET3_TCD_GET_TXIDX( &gdesc->tcd), tq, adapter->pdev, adapter); @@ -1103,6 +1108,11 @@ vmxnet3_tq_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, str gdesc->txd.tci = skb_vlan_tag_get(skb); }
+ /* Ensure that the write to (&gdesc->txd)->gen will be observed after + * all other writes to &gdesc->txd. + */ + dma_wmb(); + /* finally flips the GEN bit of the SOP desc. */ gdesc->dword[2] = cpu_to_le32(le32_to_cpu(gdesc->dword[2]) ^ VMXNET3_TXD_GEN); @@ -1298,6 +1308,12 @@ vmxnet3_rq_rx_complete(struct vmxnet3_rx */ break; } + + /* Prevent any rcd field from being (speculatively) read before + * rcd->gen is read. + */ + dma_rmb(); + BUG_ON(rcd->rqID != rq->qid && rcd->rqID != rq->qid2 && rcd->rqID != rq->dataRingQid); idx = rcd->rxdIdx; @@ -1528,6 +1544,12 @@ rcd_done: ring->next2comp = idx; num_to_alloc = vmxnet3_cmd_ring_desc_avail(ring); ring = rq->rx_ring + ring_idx; + + /* Ensure that the writes to rxd->gen bits will be observed + * after all other writes to rxd objects. + */ + dma_wmb(); + while (num_to_alloc) { vmxnet3_getRxDesc(rxd, &ring->base[ring->next2fill].rxd, &rxCmdDesc); --- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_int.h @@ -69,12 +69,12 @@ /* * Version numbers */ -#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING "1.4.15.0-k" +#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING "1.4.16.0-k"
/* Each byte of this 32-bit integer encodes a version number in * VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_STRING. */ -#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_NUM 0x01040f00 +#define VMXNET3_DRIVER_VERSION_NUM 0x01041000
#if defined(CONFIG_PCI_MSI) /* RSS only makes sense if MSI-X is supported. */