Patch "ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

to the 4.14-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:
ixgbevf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Brian King <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:05:45 -0600
Subject: ixgbevf: Use smp_rmb rather than read_barrier_depends

From: Brian King <[email protected]>

commit ae0c585d93dfaf923d2c7eb44b2c3ab92854ea9b upstream.

The original issue being fixed in this patch was seen with the ixgbe driver, but the same issue exists with ixgbevf 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.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ static bool ixgbevf_clean_tx_irq(struct
 			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(IXGBE_TXD_STAT_DD)))

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/i40evf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch queue-4.14/igb-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch queue-4.14/ixgbevf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch queue-4.14/igbvf-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch queue-4.14/fm10k-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch queue-4.14/ixgbe-fix-skb-list-corruption-on-power-systems.patch queue-4.14/i40e-use-smp_rmb-rather-than-read_barrier_depends.patch