linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.7 04/24] RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:36:44 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>,
	Tamar Mashiah <tmashiah@...dia.com>,
	Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@...dia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.7 04/24] RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands

From: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>

[ Upstream commit be551ee1574280ef8afbf7c271212ac3e38933ef ]

Relax DEVX access upon modify commands to be UVERBS_ACCESS_READ.

The kernel doesn't need to protect what firmware protects, or what
causes no damage to anyone but the user.

As firmware needs to protect itself from parallel access to the same
object, don't block parallel modify/query commands on the same object in
the kernel side.

This change will allow user space application to run parallel updates to
different entries in the same bulk object.

Tested-by: Tamar Mashiah <tmashiah@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@...dia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7407d5ed35dc427c1097699e12b49c01e1073406.1706433934.git.leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
index 8ba53edf23119..6e19974ecf6e7 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
@@ -2949,7 +2949,7 @@ DECLARE_UVERBS_NAMED_METHOD(
 	MLX5_IB_METHOD_DEVX_OBJ_MODIFY,
 	UVERBS_ATTR_IDR(MLX5_IB_ATTR_DEVX_OBJ_MODIFY_HANDLE,
 			UVERBS_IDR_ANY_OBJECT,
-			UVERBS_ACCESS_WRITE,
+			UVERBS_ACCESS_READ,
 			UA_MANDATORY),
 	UVERBS_ATTR_PTR_IN(
 		MLX5_IB_ATTR_DEVX_OBJ_MODIFY_CMD_IN,
-- 
2.43.0