i40e: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:05:44 +0000 (11:05 -0600)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:43:21 +0000 (23:43 -0800)
commit52c6912fde0133981ee50ba08808f257829c4c93
tree0b2a74cdf9f7e46035a6a6b712e59788f80cb8a9
parent0a9a17e3bb4564caf4bfe2a6783ae1287667d188
i40e: 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 i40e 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 <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c