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From: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:47 -0600
Subject: igb: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends
Patch-mainline: v4.15-rc1
Git-commit: c4cb99185b4cc96c0a1c70104dc21ae14d7e7f28
References: bsc#1056651 FATE#322191

The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe
driver, but the same issue exists with igb 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: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chang <dchang@suse.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 17351e430194..d1a44a84c97e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -6972,7 +6972,7 @@ static bool igb_clean_tx_irq(struct igb_q_vector *q_vector, int napi_budget)
 			break;
 
 		/* prevent any other reads prior to eop_desc */
-		read_barrier_depends();
+		smp_rmb();
 
 		/* if DD is not set pending work has not been completed */
 		if (!(eop_desc->wb.status & cpu_to_le32(E1000_TXD_STAT_DD)))
-- 
2.13.6