On 4/25/24 15:27, Doug Berger wrote: > The UMAC_CMD register is written from different execution > contexts and has insufficient synchronization protections to > prevent possible corruption. Of particular concern are the > acceses from the phy_device delayed work context used by the > adjust_link call and the BH context that may be used by the > ndo_set_rx_mode call. > > A spinlock is added to the driver to protect contended register > accesses (i.e. reg_lock) and it is used to synchronize accesses > to UMAC_CMD. > > Fixes: 1c1008c793fa ("net: bcmgenet: add main driver file") > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Doug Berger Acked-by: Florian Fainelli As a bug fix this is totally fine. I believe there could be an improvement made in 'net-next' whereby we introduce an unimac_rmw_locked() or something that essentially does: void unimac_rmw_locked(struct bcmgenet_priv *priv, u32 offset, u32 mask_clear, u32 mask_set) { u32 reg; spin_lock_bh(&priv->reg_lock); reg = bcmgenet_umac_readl(priv, offset); reg &= ~mask_clear; reg |= mask_set; bcmgenet_umac_writel(priv, reg, offset); spin_unlock_bh(&priv->reg_lock); } At least a couple of callers could benefit from it. Thanks! -- Florian