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From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
To: Dmitry Fleytman <dmitry@daynix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Chris Webb <chris.webb@elastichosts.com>,
	Richard Davies <richard.davies@elastichosts.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000 driver RX race condition fixed
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:46:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507EEEE6.9040008@computer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350235151-11146-1-git-send-email-dmitry@daynix.com>

On 10/14/2012 07:19 PM, Dmitry Fleytman wrote:
> There is a race condition in e1000 driver.
> It enables HW receive before RX rings initalization.
> In case of specific timing this may lead to host memory corruption
> due to DMA write to arbitrary memory location.
> Following patch fixes this issue by reordering initialization steps.
> 
> Other Intel network drivers does not seem to have this issue.
> 
> Dmitry Fleytman (1):
>   RX initialization sequence fixed - enable RX after corresponding ring
>     initialization only
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c |    9 +++++----
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c    |   18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

Would it be at all possible to copy netdev on networking-related
discussions?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-14 17:19 [PATCH] e1000 driver RX race condition fixed Dmitry Fleytman
2012-10-14 17:19 ` [PATCH] RX initialization sequence fixed - enable RX after corresponding ring initialization only Dmitry Fleytman
2012-10-15  5:52   ` [E1000-devel] " Jeff Kirsher
2012-10-15 17:41     ` Dmitry Fleytman
2012-10-19 19:19     ` Richard Davies
2012-10-19 19:34       ` Dmitry Fleytman
2012-10-23  5:23       ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-10-15 18:53 ` [PATCH] e1000 driver RX race condition fixed Alexander Duyck
2012-10-15 19:44   ` Dmitry Fleytman
2012-10-15 20:03     ` Alexander Duyck
2012-10-15 20:20       ` Dmitry Fleytman
2012-10-15 21:17         ` Alexander Duyck
2012-10-17 17:46 ` Jan Ceuleers [this message]

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