r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.
authorFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:53:26 +0000 (01:53 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 26 Jan 2018 02:34:04 +0000 (21:34 -0500)
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>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c

index fc0d5fa65ad4c1ca02073e2d1d1554df68443e86..734286ebe5ef557c0d2738702e86081552c68cc5 100644 (file)
@@ -2244,19 +2244,14 @@ static bool rtl8169_do_counters(struct net_device *dev, u32 counter_cmd)
        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)