netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf 3/3] devmap: Add missing RCU read lock on flush

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:07:42 +0200
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To:     Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:     Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, xdp-newbies@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf 3/3] devmap: Add missing RCU read lock on flush

Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com> writes:

> .ndo_xdp_xmit() assumes it is called under RCU. For example virtio_net
> uses RCU to detect it has setup the resources for tx. The assumption
> accidentally broke when introducing bulk queue in devmap.
>
> Fixes: 5d053f9da431 ("bpf: devmap prepare xdp frames for bulking")
> Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>
> ---

I think this is still needed, but the patch context is going to conflict
with the patch I linked above... I guess it's up to the maintainers to
decide which order to merge them in :)

-Toke