netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:34:34 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     romieu@...zoreil.com
Cc:     o.freyermuth@...glemail.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of
 hardware statistics.

From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:53:26 +0100

> Hardware statistics retrieval hurts in tight invocation loops.
> 
> Avoid extraneous write and enforce strict ordering of writes targeted to
> the tally counters dump area address registers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Tested-by: Oliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@...glemail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Francois.