netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: net: xgene: fix: Out of order descriptor bytes read

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:24:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	isubramanian@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, mlangsdo@...hat.com,
	patches@....com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, kchudgar@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: net: xgene: fix: Out of order descriptor
 bytes read

From: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@....com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:38:23 -0800

> This patch fixes the following kernel crash,
 ...
> Software writes poison data into the descriptor bytes[15:8] and upon
> receiving the interrupt, if those bytes are overwritten by the hardware with
> the valid data, software also reads bytes[7:0] and executes receive/tx
> completion logic.
> 
> If the CPU executes the above two reads in out of order fashion, then the
> bytes[7:0] will have older data and causing the kernel panic.  We have to
> force the order of the reads and thus this patch introduces read memory
> barrier between these reads.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Iyappan Subramanian <isubramanian@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Keyur Chudgar <kchudgar@....com>

Applied, thanks.
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