From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit d667f78514c656a6a8bf0b3d6134a7fe5cd4d317 upstream. We received two reports of BUG_ON in bnad_txcmpl_process() where hw_consumer_index appeared to be ahead of producer_index. Out of order write/read of these variables could explain these reports. bnad_start_xmit(), as a producer of tx descriptors, has a few memory barriers sprinkled around writes to producer_index and the device's doorbell but they're not paired with anything in bnad_txcmpl_process(), a consumer. Since we are synchronizing with a device, we must use mandatory barriers, not smp_*. Also, I didn't see the purpose of the last smp_mb() in bnad_start_xmit(). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c index 45ce6e2214b3..2deabae1d66e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/brocade/bna/bnad.c @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ bnad_txcmpl_process(struct bnad *bnad, struct bna_tcb *tcb) return 0; hw_cons = *(tcb->hw_consumer_index); + rmb(); cons = tcb->consumer_index; q_depth = tcb->q_depth; @@ -2906,13 +2907,12 @@ bnad_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *netdev) BNA_QE_INDX_INC(prod, q_depth); tcb->producer_index = prod; - smp_mb(); + wmb(); if (unlikely(!test_bit(BNAD_TXQ_TX_STARTED, &tcb->flags))) return NETDEV_TX_OK; bna_txq_prod_indx_doorbell(tcb); - smp_mb(); return NETDEV_TX_OK; } -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html