This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
to the 3.18-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:
ixgbevf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ae0c585d93dfaf923d2c7eb44b2c3ab92854ea9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:45 -0600
Subject: ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
From: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit ae0c585d93dfaf923d2c7eb44b2c3ab92854ea9b upstream.
The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe
driver, but the same issue exists with ixgbevf 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.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static bool ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(struct
break;
/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
- read_barrier_depends();
+ smp_rmb();
/* if DD is not set pending work has not been completed */
if (!(eop_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(IXGBE_TXD_STAT_DD)))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/i40evf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
queue-3.18/igb-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
queue-3.18/ixgbevf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
queue-3.18/igbvf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
queue-3.18/fm10k-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
queue-3.18/ixgbe-fix-skb-list-corruption-on-power-systems.patch
queue-3.18/i40e-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch