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>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index 9778c83150f1cc4508864d593bb5d33487c416db..8820c98ea891e39bb921348ec51c4919fc1e641f 100644 (file)
--- 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;
                }