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authorBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-17 11:05:43 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-11-30 08:37:24 +0000
commitaef7cdb6a6ffa07da7f713d9164d50f954df10b6 (patch)
tree5d1ae15c30b5809c6fce62c7235fbb12161d3092
parentbb923a81c33e543ead08420ac03e7d704243d6b0 (diff)
ixgbe: Fix skb list corruption on Power systems
commit 0a9a17e3bb4564caf4bfe2a6783ae1287667d188 upstream. This patch fixes an issue seen on Power systems with ixgbe which results in skb list corruption and an eventual kernel oops. The following is what was observed: CPU 1 CPU2 ============================ ============================ 1: ixgbe_xmit_frame_ring ixgbe_clean_tx_irq 2: first->skb = skb eop_desc = tx_buffer->next_to_watch 3: ixgbe_tx_map read_barrier_depends() 4: wmb check adapter written status bit 5: first->next_to_watch = tx_desc napi_consume_skb(tx_buffer->skb ..); 6: writel(i, tx_ring->tail); The read_barrier_depends is insufficient to ensure that tx_buffer->skb does not get loaded prior to tx_buffer->next_to_watch, which then results in loading a stale skb pointer. This patch replaces the read_barrier_depends with smp_rmb to ensure loads are ordered with respect to the load of tx_buffer->next_to_watch. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 83645d8503d4..a5b443171b8b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -1114,7 +1114,7 @@ static bool ixgbe_clean_tx_irq(struct ixgbe_q_vector *q_vector,
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)))