On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:53 PM Anssi Hannula <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 64-bit DMA addresses are split in upper and lower halves that are
> written in separate fields on GEM. For RX, bit 0 of the address is used
> as the ownership bit (RX_USED). When the RX_USED bit is unset the
> controller is allowed to write data to the buffer.
>
> The driver does not guarantee that the controller already sees the upper
> half when the RX_USED bit is cleared, possibly resulting in the
> controller writing an incoming frame to an address with an incorrect
> upper half and therefore possibly corrupting unrelated system memory.
>
> Fix that by adding the necessary DMA memory barrier between the writes.
>
> This corruption was observed on a ZynqMP based system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <[email protected]>
> Fixes: fff8019a08b6 ("net: macb: Add 64 bit addressing support for GEM")
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <[email protected]>
> Cc: Harini Katakam <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Harini Katakam <[email protected]>

Regards,
Harini

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