This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i40e: Acquire NVM lock before reads on all devices
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: i40e-acquire-nvm-lock-before-reads-on-all-devices.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: Aaron Salter aaron.k.salter@intel.com Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 12:33:02 -0800 Subject: i40e: Acquire NVM lock before reads on all devices
From: Aaron Salter aaron.k.salter@intel.com
[ Upstream commit 96a39aed25e6559b160786117df124084feb9080 ]
Acquire NVM lock before reads on all devices. Previously, locks were only used for X722 and later. Fixes an issue where simultaneous X710 NVM accesses were interfering with each other.
Change-ID: If570bb7acf958cef58725ec2a2011cead6f80638 Signed-off-by: Aaron Salter aaron.k.salter@intel.com Tested-by: Andrew Bowers andrewx.bowers@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c @@ -292,14 +292,14 @@ i40e_status i40e_read_nvm_word(struct i4 { enum i40e_status_code ret_code = 0;
- if (hw->flags & I40E_HW_FLAG_AQ_SRCTL_ACCESS_ENABLE) { - ret_code = i40e_acquire_nvm(hw, I40E_RESOURCE_READ); - if (!ret_code) { + ret_code = i40e_acquire_nvm(hw, I40E_RESOURCE_READ); + if (!ret_code) { + if (hw->flags & I40E_HW_FLAG_AQ_SRCTL_ACCESS_ENABLE) { ret_code = i40e_read_nvm_word_aq(hw, offset, data); - i40e_release_nvm(hw); + } else { + ret_code = i40e_read_nvm_word_srctl(hw, offset, data); } - } else { - ret_code = i40e_read_nvm_word_srctl(hw, offset, data); + i40e_release_nvm(hw); } return ret_code; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaron.k.salter@intel.com are
queue-4.4/i40e-acquire-nvm-lock-before-reads-on-all-devices.patch