2 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
index 59b51c529ba0..294c072e9083 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ lpfc_do_work(void *p)
 	struct lpfc_hba *phba = p;
 	int rc;
 
-	set_user_nice(current, -20);
+	set_user_nice(current, MIN_NICE);
 	current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;
 	phba->data_flags = 0;
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
index 6bb51f8e3c1b..393662c24df5 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_sli.c
@@ -265,6 +265,16 @@ lpfc_sli4_eq_get(struct lpfc_queue *q)
 		return NULL;
 
 	q->hba_index = idx;
+
+	/*
+	 * insert barrier for instruction interlock : data from the hardware
+	 * must have the valid bit checked before it can be copied and acted
+	 * upon. Given what was seen in lpfc_sli4_cq_get() of speculative
+	 * instructions allowing action on content before valid bit checked,
+	 * add barrier here as well. May not be needed as "content" is a
+	 * single 32-bit entity here (vs multi word structure for cq's).
+	 */
+	mb();
 	return eqe;
 }
 
@@ -370,6 +380,17 @@ lpfc_sli4_cq_get(struct lpfc_queue *q)
 
 	cqe = q->qe[q->hba_index].cqe;
 	q->hba_index = idx;
+
+	/*
+	 * insert barrier for instruction interlock : data from the hardware
+	 * must have the valid bit checked before it can be copied and acted
+	 * upon. Speculative instructions were allowing a bcopy at the start
+	 * of lpfc_sli4_fp_handle_wcqe(), which is called immediately
+	 * after our return, to copy data before the valid bit check above
+	 * was done. As such, some of the copied data was stale. The barrier
+	 * ensures the check is before any data is copied.
+	 */
+	mb();
 	return cqe;
 }