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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hv')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c index 71efacb90965..3d215d9dec43 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c @@ -439,7 +439,16 @@ int hv_ringbuffer_read(struct vmbus_channel *channel, static u32 hv_pkt_iter_avail(const struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi) { u32 priv_read_loc = rbi->priv_read_index; - u32 write_loc = READ_ONCE(rbi->ring_buffer->write_index); + u32 write_loc; + + /* + * The Hyper-V host writes the packet data, then uses + * store_release() to update the write_index. Use load_acquire() + * here to prevent loads of the packet data from being re-ordered + * before the read of the write_index and potentially getting + * stale data. + */ + write_loc = virt_load_acquire(&rbi->ring_buffer->write_index); if (write_loc >= priv_read_loc) return write_loc - priv_read_loc; |