[PATCH] net/e1000: fix crash when built with GCC 13

Thierry Herbelot thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com
Fri Oct 10 15:31:51 CEST 2025


On 10/10/25 14:58, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> The e1000 PMD crashes during initialisation in a Ubuntu 24.04 VM when
> compiled with gcc-13 with -O3 optimisations. This patch introduces a
> compiler barrier after the register read that was causing the issue.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 1691
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>

Tested-by: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot at 6wind.com>

The patch fixes the crash at startup.

	Thanks

	Thierry

> ---
>   drivers/net/intel/e1000/base/e1000_mac.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/e1000/base/e1000_mac.c b/drivers/net/intel/e1000/base/e1000_mac.c
> index 2fa97d12a9..41aae86ffe 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/intel/e1000/base/e1000_mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/intel/e1000/base/e1000_mac.c
> @@ -1842,6 +1842,7 @@ s32 e1000_id_led_init_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw)
>   		return ret_val;
>   
>   	mac->ledctl_default = E1000_READ_REG(hw, E1000_LEDCTL);
> +	rte_compiler_barrier();
>   	mac->ledctl_mode1 = mac->ledctl_default;
>   	mac->ledctl_mode2 = mac->ledctl_default;
>   

-- 
Thierry Herbelot


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