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Zhou Wang
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Reading the 'prod' MMIO register in order to determine whether or not there is valid data beyond 'cons' for a given queue does not provide sufficient dependency ordering, as the resulting access is address dependent only on 'cons' and can therefore be speculated ahead of time, potentially allowing stale data to be read by the CPU. Use readl() instead of readl_relaxed() when updating the shadow copy of the 'prod' pointer, so that all speculated memory reads from the corresponding queue can occur only from valid slots. Signed-off-by: Zhou Wang <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [will: Use readl() instead of explicit barrier. Update 'cons' side to match.] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
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