i40evf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:05:49 +0000 (11:05 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:35:53 +0000 (08:35 +0000)
commit777ee59c69604acbee8be25c3e9403b7dfa15147
tree17422854c7a2ce114316213ac591d79b5b64ad5c
parentbc0a7c84883c8b0eabac4adaa65228a911694f0e
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 <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40e_txrx.c