This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sfc: extend the locking on mcdi->seqno
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:
sfc-extend-the-locking-on-mcdi-seqno.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 7a980d317ebd29d0fbab94224163da1a9f77d585
Author: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Mar 1 23:28:22 2022 +0100
sfc: extend the locking on mcdi->seqno
[ Upstream commit f1fb205efb0ccca55626fd4ef38570dd16b44719 ]
seqno could be read as a stale value outside of the lock. The lock is
already acquired to protect the modification of seqno against a possible
race condition. Place the reading of this value also inside this locking
to protect it against a possible race condition.
Signed-off-by: Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Martin Habets <habetsm.xilinx@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
index be6bfd6b7ec7..50baf62b2cbc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi.c
@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ static void efx_mcdi_send_request(struct efx_nic *efx, unsigned cmd,
/* Serialise with efx_mcdi_ev_cpl() and efx_mcdi_ev_death() */
spin_lock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
++mcdi->seqno;
+ seqno = mcdi->seqno & SEQ_MASK;
spin_unlock_bh(&mcdi->iface_lock);
- seqno = mcdi->seqno & SEQ_MASK;
xflags = 0;
if (mcdi->mode == MCDI_MODE_EVENTS)
xflags |= MCDI_HEADER_XFLAGS_EVREQ;
