From: Brian King <brk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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.
Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bow...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index ca06c3cc2ca8..62a18914f00f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ 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)))
--
2.15.0
