Jia-Ju Bai <baiji...@tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote:

> In p54p_tx(), skb->data is mapped to streaming DMA on line 337:
>   mapping = pci_map_single(..., skb->data, ...);
> 
> Then skb->data is accessed on line 349:
>   desc->device_addr = ((struct p54_hdr *)skb->data)->req_id;
> 
> This access may cause data inconsistency between CPU cache and hardware.
> 
> To fix this problem, ((struct p54_hdr *)skb->data)->req_id is stored in
> a local variable before DMA mapping, and then the driver accesses this
> local variable instead of skb->data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baiji...@tsinghua.edu.cn>

Can someone review this?

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