The write operations to "dev->stats" are protected by the spinlock on line 862-864, but the read operations to this data on line 858 and 867 are not protected by the spinlock. Thus, there may exist data races for "dev->stats".
To fix the data races, the read operations to "dev->stats" are protected by the spinlock, and a local variable is used for return. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c index c9c55c9eab9f..198952247d30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/lib8390.c @@ -852,19 +852,25 @@ static struct net_device_stats *__ei_get_stats(struct net_device *dev) unsigned long ioaddr = dev->base_addr; struct ei_device *ei_local = netdev_priv(dev); unsigned long flags; + struct net_device_stats *stats; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); /* If the card is stopped, just return the present stats. */ - if (!netif_running(dev)) - return &dev->stats; + if (!netif_running(dev)) { + stats = &dev->stats; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); + return stats; + } - spin_lock_irqsave(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); /* Read the counter registers, assuming we are in page 0. */ dev->stats.rx_frame_errors += ei_inb_p(ioaddr + EN0_COUNTER0); dev->stats.rx_crc_errors += ei_inb_p(ioaddr + EN0_COUNTER1); dev->stats.rx_missed_errors += ei_inb_p(ioaddr + EN0_COUNTER2); + stats = &dev->stats; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ei_local->page_lock, flags); - return &dev->stats; + return stats; } /* -- 2.17.0