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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
index dd57c7c5a3d..47c5814114e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation.
*
- * Maintained by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
+ * Maintained by: Ariel Elior <ariel.elior@qlogic.com>
* Written by: Eliezer Tamir
* Based on code from Michael Chan's bnx2 driver
* UDP CSUM errata workaround by Arik Gendelman
@@ -906,6 +906,18 @@ static int bnx2x_rx_int(struct bnx2x_fastpath *fp, int budget)
bd_prod = RX_BD(bd_prod);
bd_cons = RX_BD(bd_cons);
+ /* A rmb() is required to ensure that the CQE is not read
+ * before it is written by the adapter DMA. PCI ordering
+ * rules will make sure the other fields are written before
+ * the marker at the end of struct eth_fast_path_rx_cqe
+ * but without rmb() a weakly ordered processor can process
+ * stale data. Without the barrier TPA state-machine might
+ * enter inconsistent state and kernel stack might be
+ * provided with incorrect packet description - these lead
+ * to various kernel crashed.
+ */
+ rmb();
+
cqe_fp_flags = cqe_fp->type_error_flags;
cqe_fp_type = cqe_fp_flags & ETH_FAST_PATH_RX_CQE_TYPE;