From: Iyappan Subramanian <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Keyur Chudgar <[email protected]> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
