cnic: Prevent status block race conditions with hardware
authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:00:49 +0000 (13:00 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 2 Mar 2011 23:57:51 +0000 (15:57 -0800)
The status block index is used to acknowledge interrupt events and must
be read before checking for the interrupt events, so we need to add rmb()
to guarantee that.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/cnic.c

index 7ff170c..b0d9e4a 100644 (file)
@@ -2760,6 +2760,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2_queues(struct cnic_dev *dev)
        u32 status_idx = (u16) *cp->kcq1.status_idx_ptr;
        int kcqe_cnt;
 
+       /* status block index must be read before reading other fields */
+       rmb();
        cp->kwq_con_idx = *cp->kwq_con_idx_ptr;
 
        while ((kcqe_cnt = cnic_get_kcqes(dev, &cp->kcq1))) {
@@ -2770,6 +2772,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2_queues(struct cnic_dev *dev)
                barrier();
                if (status_idx != *cp->kcq1.status_idx_ptr) {
                        status_idx = (u16) *cp->kcq1.status_idx_ptr;
+                       /* status block index must be read first */
+                       rmb();
                        cp->kwq_con_idx = *cp->kwq_con_idx_ptr;
                } else
                        break;
@@ -2888,6 +2892,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2x_kcq(struct cnic_dev *dev, struct kcq_info *info)
        u32 last_status = *info->status_idx_ptr;
        int kcqe_cnt;
 
+       /* status block index must be read before reading the KCQ */
+       rmb();
        while ((kcqe_cnt = cnic_get_kcqes(dev, info))) {
 
                service_kcqes(dev, kcqe_cnt);
@@ -2898,6 +2904,8 @@ static u32 cnic_service_bnx2x_kcq(struct cnic_dev *dev, struct kcq_info *info)
                        break;
 
                last_status = *info->status_idx_ptr;
+               /* status block index must be read before reading the KCQ */
+               rmb();
        }
        return last_status;
 }