NET: am79c961: fix race in link status code

The link status code operates from a timer, and writes the index
register without first taking a lock.  A well-placed interrupt
between writing the index register and reading the data register
could change the index register on us, which will return wrong data.
Add the necessary lock.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
index 52fe21e1e2cd..3b1416e3d217 100644
--- a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
@@ -308,8 +308,11 @@ static void am79c961_timer(unsigned long data)
         struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)data;
         struct dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
         unsigned int lnkstat, carrier;
+        unsigned long flags;
 
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->chip_lock, flags);
         lnkstat = read_ireg(dev->base_addr, ISALED0) & ISALED0_LNKST;
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->chip_lock, flags);
         carrier = netif_carrier_ok(dev);
 
         if (lnkstat && !carrier) {