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authorLijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com>2021-01-27 19:34:42 -0600
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2021-01-27 19:12:02 -0800
commite41aec79e62fa50f940cf222d1e9577f14e149dc (patch)
tree55d18590bedee7d2c4b1b2a3e93a3089b6967b7a /drivers/net
parent0f764eec3ea23b7b2c64fb54c9a219553921e93a (diff)
ibmvnic: Ensure that CRQ entry read are correctly ordered
Ensure that received Command-Response Queue (CRQ) entries are properly read in order by the driver. dma_rmb barrier has been added before accessing the CRQ descriptor to ensure the entire descriptor is read before processing. Fixes: 032c5e82847a ("Driver for IBM System i/p VNIC protocol") Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210128013442.88319-1-ljp@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 9778c83150f1..8820c98ea891 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -5084,6 +5084,12 @@ static void ibmvnic_tasklet(struct tasklet_struct *t)
while (!done) {
/* Pull all the valid messages off the CRQ */
while ((crq = ibmvnic_next_crq(adapter)) != NULL) {
+ /* This barrier makes sure ibmvnic_next_crq()'s
+ * crq->generic.first & IBMVNIC_CRQ_CMD_RSP is loaded
+ * before ibmvnic_handle_crq()'s
+ * switch(gen_crq->first) and switch(gen_crq->cmd).
+ */
+ dma_rmb();
ibmvnic_handle_crq(crq, adapter);
crq->generic.first = 0;
}