1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 33ac2b186b85..78b5940a415a 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -1877,12 +1877,7 @@ static unsigned next_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, struct vring_desc *desc)
                 return -1U;
 
         /* Check they're not leading us off end of descriptors. */
-        next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, desc->next);
-        /* Make sure compiler knows to grab that: we don't want it changing! */
-        /* We will use the result as an index in an array, so most
-         * architectures only need a compiler barrier here. */
-        read_barrier_depends();
-
+        next = vhost16_to_cpu(vq, READ_ONCE(desc->next));
         return next;
 }