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jme: Prevent possible read re-order error

Adding read memory barrier in between flag reading and data reading of
receive descriptors. This prevents the data being read before hardware
complete writing informations.

Reported-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid@cooldavid.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Guo-Fu Tseng 14 years ago
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      drivers/net/jme.c

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drivers/net/jme.c

@@ -989,6 +989,7 @@ jme_process_receive(struct jme_adapter *jme, int limit)
 			goto out;
 		--limit;
 
+		rmb();
 		desccnt = rxdesc->descwb.desccnt & RXWBDCNT_DCNT;
 
 		if (unlikely(desccnt > 1 ||