netdev - [PATCH net-2.6 1/2] cnic: Prevent status block race conditions with hardware

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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:00:49 -0800
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-2.6 1/2] cnic: Prevent status block race conditions
 with hardware

The status block index is used to acknowledge interrupt events and must
be read before checking for the interrupt events, so we need to add rmb()
to guarantee that.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/cnic.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/cnic.c b/drivers/net/cnic.c
index 7ff170c..b0d9e4a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/cnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/cnic.c
@@ -2760,6 +2760,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2_queues(struct cnic_dev *dev)
 	u32 status_idx = (u16) *cp->kcq1.status_idx_ptr;
 	int kcqe_cnt;
 
+	/* status block index must be read before reading other fields */
+	rmb();
 	cp->kwq_con_idx = *cp->kwq_con_idx_ptr;
 
 	while ((kcqe_cnt = cnic_get_kcqes(dev, &cp->kcq1))) {
@@ -2770,6 +2772,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2_queues(struct cnic_dev *dev)
 		barrier();
 		if (status_idx != *cp->kcq1.status_idx_ptr) {
 			status_idx = (u16) *cp->kcq1.status_idx_ptr;
+			/* status block index must be read first */
+			rmb();
 			cp->kwq_con_idx = *cp->kwq_con_idx_ptr;
 		} else
 			break;
@@ -2888,6 +2892,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2x_kcq(struct cnic_dev *dev, struct kcq_info *info)
 	u32 last_status = *info->status_idx_ptr;
 	int kcqe_cnt;
 
+	/* status block index must be read before reading the KCQ */
+	rmb();
 	while ((kcqe_cnt = cnic_get_kcqes(dev, info))) {
 
 		service_kcqes(dev, kcqe_cnt);
@@ -2898,6 +2904,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2x_kcq(struct cnic_dev *dev, struct kcq_info *info)
 			break;
 
 		last_status = *info->status_idx_ptr;
+		/* status block index must be read before reading the KCQ */
+		rmb();
 	}
 	return last_status;
 }
-- 
1.6.4.GIT


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