This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: renesas: sh_eth: Fix freeing wrong tx descriptor
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-renesas-sh_eth-fix-freeing-wrong-tx-descriptor.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f617525c0c5f4538e4d9212eca59d86ee69d5e90
Author: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Sep 7 20:29:40 2021 +0900
net: renesas: sh_eth: Fix freeing wrong tx descriptor
[ Upstream commit 0341d5e3d1ee2a36dd5a49b5bef2ce4ad1cfa6b4 ]
The cur_tx counter must be incremented after TACT bit of
txdesc->status was set. However, a CPU is possible to reorder
instructions and/or memory accesses between cur_tx and
txdesc->status. And then, if TX interrupt happened at such a
timing, the sh_eth_tx_free() may free the descriptor wrongly.
So, add wmb() before cur_tx++.
Otherwise NETDEV WATCHDOG timeout is possible to happen.
Fixes: 86a74ff21a7a ("net: sh_eth: add support for Renesas SuperH Ethernet")
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
index 5cab2d3c0023..8927d5997745 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
@@ -2533,6 +2533,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t sh_eth_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
else
txdesc->status |= cpu_to_le32(TD_TACT);
+ wmb(); /* cur_tx must be incremented after TACT bit was set */
mdp->cur_tx++;
if (!(sh_eth_read(ndev, EDTRR) & mdp->cd->edtrr_trns))
