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.
Cc: stablestable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com --- 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 032f8ac..90ecc4b 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)))