This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    r8169: missing barriers.

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     r8169-missing-barriers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From stable-ow...@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct  6 06:49:21 2012
From: Francois Romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Fri,  5 Oct 2012 23:29:16 +0200
Subject: r8169: missing barriers.
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hayes Wang <hayesw...@realtek.com>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>


commit 1e874e041fc7c222cbd85b20c4406070be1f687a upstream.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Hayes Wang <hayesw...@realtek.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/r8169.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -4957,7 +4957,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t rtl8169_start_xmit(st
 
        if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) < MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
                netif_stop_queue(dev);
-               smp_rmb();
+               smp_mb();
                if (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)
                        netif_wake_queue(dev);
        }
@@ -5058,7 +5058,7 @@ static void rtl8169_tx_interrupt(struct
 
        if (tp->dirty_tx != dirty_tx) {
                tp->dirty_tx = dirty_tx;
-               smp_wmb();
+               smp_mb();
                if (netif_queue_stopped(dev) &&
                    (TX_BUFFS_AVAIL(tp) >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS)) {
                        netif_wake_queue(dev);
@@ -5069,7 +5069,6 @@ static void rtl8169_tx_interrupt(struct
                 * of start_xmit activity is detected (if it is not detected,
                 * it is slow enough). -- FR
                 */
-               smp_rmb();
                if (tp->cur_tx != dirty_tx)
                        RTL_W8(TxPoll, NPQ);
        }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rom...@fr.zoreil.com are

queue-3.0/r8169-fix-config2-msienable-bit-setting.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-remove-erroneous-processing-of-always-set-bit.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-fix-wake-on-lan-setting-for-non-8111e.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-8168c-and-later-require-bit-0x20-to-be-set-in-config2-for-pme-signaling.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-config1-is-read-only-on-8168c-and-later.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-rx-fifo-overflow-fixes.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-jumbo-fixes.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-runtime-resume-before-shutdown.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-increase-the-delay-parameter-of-pm_schedule_suspend.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-don-t-enable-rx-when-shutdown.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-missing-barriers.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-fix-unsigned-int-wraparound-with-tso.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-expand-received-packet-length-indication.patch
queue-3.0/r8169-call-netif_napi_del-at-errpaths-and-at-driver-unload.patch
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