drivers: hv: check interrupt mask before read_index

This patches add a read barriers to force the driver to check the interrupt mask
before read_index. Otherwise we may lost a kick to host.

Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by:  K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
index 791f45d..26c93cf 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/ring_buffer.c
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static bool hv_need_to_signal(u32 old_write, struct hv_ring_buffer_info *rbi)
        if (rbi->ring_buffer->interrupt_mask)
                return false;
 
+       /* check interrupt_mask before read_index */
+       rmb();
        /*
         * This is the only case we need to signal when the
         * ring transitions from being empty to non-empty.