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Commit 52c6912f authored by Brian King's avatar Brian King Committed by Jeff Kirsher
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i40e: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends



The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe
driver, but the same issue exists with i40e as well, as the code is
very similar. read_barrier_depends is not sufficient to ensure
loads following it are not speculatively loaded out of order
by the CPU, which can result in stale data being loaded, causing
potential system crashes.

Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAndrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent 0a9a17e3
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