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amd-xgbe: Fix race between access of desc and desc index
authorLendacky, Thomas <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:13:54 +0000 (17:13 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Dec 2015 19:31:03 +0000 (14:31 -0500)
commit6077315234f4c83dbacd4ba6456856df7f1c17ed
treee6cf96d1e1e585773224e737bace4667be701a31
parent3bc6cb1eeee449c1e30df02dd5e59b3d8d768a5c
amd-xgbe: Fix race between access of desc and desc index

[ Upstream commit 20986ed826cbb36bb8f2d77f872e3c52d8d30647 ]

During Tx cleanup it's still possible for the descriptor data to be
read ahead of the descriptor index. A memory barrier is required between
the read of the descriptor index and the start of the Tx cleanup loop.
This allows a change to a lighter-weight barrier in the Tx transmit
routine just before updating the current descriptor index.

Since the memory barrier does result in extra overhead on arm64, keep
the previous change to not chase the current descriptor value. This
prevents the execution of the barrier for each loop performed.

Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-dev.c
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-drv.c