This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.

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: r8169-fix-memory-corruption-on-retrieval-of-hardware-statistics.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 Jan 29 10:14:57 CET 2018

From: Francois Romieu romieu@fr.zoreil.com Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:53:26 +0100 Subject: r8169: fix memory corruption on retrieval of hardware statistics.

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)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from romieu@fr.zoreil.com are

queue-4.4/r8169-fix-memory-corruption-on-retrieval-of-hardware-statistics.patch