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tg3: Enforce DMA mapping / skb assignment ordering

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Michael Chan noted that there is nothing in the code that would prevent
the compiler from delaying the access of the "mapping" member of the
newly arrived packet until much later.  If this happened after the
skb = NULL assignment, it is possible for the driver to pass a bad
dma_addr value to pci_unmap_single().  To enforce this ordering, we need
a write memory barrier.  The pairing read memory barrier already exists
in tg3_rx_prodring_xfer() under the comments starting with
"Ensure that updates to the...".

Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Matt Carlson 2010-02-17 15:16:54 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 9940516259
commit 61e800cf94
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/tg3.c
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@ -4659,11 +4659,16 @@ static int tg3_rx(struct tg3_napi *tnapi, int budget)
if (skb_size < 0)
goto drop_it;
ri->skb = NULL;
pci_unmap_single(tp->pdev, dma_addr, skb_size,
PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
/* Ensure that the update to the skb happens
* after the usage of the old DMA mapping.
*/
smp_wmb();
ri->skb = NULL;
skb_put(skb, len);
} else {
struct sk_buff *copy_skb;