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-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c7
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;
}