From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:36:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up
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e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up

commit 19110cfbb34d4af0cdfe14cd243f3b09dc95b013 upstream.

Lennart reported the following race condition:

\ e1000_watchdog_task
    \ e1000e_has_link
        \ hw->mac.ops.check_for_link() === e1000e_check_for_copper_link
            /* link is up */
            mac->get_link_status = false;

                            /* interrupt */
                            \ e1000_msix_other
                                hw->mac.get_link_status = true;

        link_active = !hw->mac.get_link_status
        /* link_active is false, wrongly */

This problem arises because the single flag get_link_status is used to
signal two different states: link status needs checking and link status is
down.

Avoid the problem by using the return value of .check_for_link to signal
the link status to e1000e_has_link().

Reported-by: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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