Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.4 67/74] r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics. | Date | Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:57:12 +0100 |
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4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
[ Upstream commit a78e93661c5fd30b9e1dee464b2f62f966883ef7 ]
Hardware statistics retrieval hurts in tight invocation loops.
Avoid extraneous write and enforce strict ordering of writes targeted to the tally counters dump area address registers.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Tested-by: Oliver Freyermuth <o.freyermuth@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -2205,19 +2205,14 @@ static bool rtl8169_do_counters(struct n void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr; dma_addr_t paddr = tp->counters_phys_addr; u32 cmd; - bool ret; RTL_W32(CounterAddrHigh, (u64)paddr >> 32); + RTL_R32(CounterAddrHigh); cmd = (u64)paddr & DMA_BIT_MASK(32); RTL_W32(CounterAddrLow, cmd); RTL_W32(CounterAddrLow, cmd | counter_cmd); - ret = rtl_udelay_loop_wait_low(tp, &rtl_counters_cond, 10, 1000); - - RTL_W32(CounterAddrLow, 0); - RTL_W32(CounterAddrHigh, 0); - - return ret; + return rtl_udelay_loop_wait_low(tp, &rtl_counters_cond, 10, 1000); } static bool rtl8169_reset_counters(struct net_device *dev)
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