On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:44 -0600 Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>