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[PATCH net] net: emac: mal: fix W1C write race in ICINTSTAT clearing

From: Rosen Penev <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-02 23:49:25
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

The ICINTSTAT register is write-1-to-clear (W1C).  The read-modify-write
pattern in both mal_txeob() and mal_rxeob() can lose interrupts: if a bit
that should not be cleared is already asserted when mfdcri() reads the
register, it is included in the read value, retained by the bitwise OR, and
then written back as 1 - inadvertently clearing a pending but unhandled
interrupt.

Fix by writing only the specific bit to clear (ICINTSTAT_ICTX for TXEOB,
ICINTSTAT_ICRX for RXEOB).  W1C semantics guarantee that writing 0 to the
other bits has no effect.

Fixes: 1d3bb996481e ("Device tree aware EMAC driver")
Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
index 4025bc36ae16..eab7a487bf08 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
@@ -282,8 +282,7 @@ static irqreturn_t mal_txeob(int irq, void *dev_instance)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_DCR_NATIVE
 	if (mal_has_feature(mal, MAL_FTR_CLEAR_ICINTSTAT))
-		mtdcri(SDR0, DCRN_SDR_ICINTSTAT,
-				(mfdcri(SDR0, DCRN_SDR_ICINTSTAT) | ICINTSTAT_ICTX));
+		mtdcri(SDR0, DCRN_SDR_ICINTSTAT, ICINTSTAT_ICTX);
 #endif
 
 	return IRQ_HANDLED;
@@ -302,8 +301,7 @@ static irqreturn_t mal_rxeob(int irq, void *dev_instance)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_DCR_NATIVE
 	if (mal_has_feature(mal, MAL_FTR_CLEAR_ICINTSTAT))
-		mtdcri(SDR0, DCRN_SDR_ICINTSTAT,
-				(mfdcri(SDR0, DCRN_SDR_ICINTSTAT) | ICINTSTAT_ICRX));
+		mtdcri(SDR0, DCRN_SDR_ICINTSTAT, ICINTSTAT_ICRX);
 #endif
 
 	return IRQ_HANDLED;
-- 
2.55.0
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