netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/7] selftests/bpf: sync RCU before unloading bpf

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Date:   Sun, 10 Jan 2021 20:05:04 -0800
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <ast@...com>, <daniel@...earbox.net>
CC:     <kernel-team@...com>, Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/7] selftests/bpf: sync RCU before unloading
 bpf_testmod



On 1/8/21 2:09 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> If some of the subtests use module BTFs through ksyms, they will cause
> bpf_prog to take a refcount on bpf_testmod module, which will prevent it from
> successfully unloading. Module's refcnt is decremented when bpf_prog is freed,
> which generally happens in RCU callback. So we need to trigger
> syncronize_rcu() in the kernel, which can be achieved nicely with
> membarrier(MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL) syscall. So do that in kernel_sync_rcu() and
> make it available to other test inside the test_progs. This synchronize_rcu()
> is called before attempting to unload bpf_testmod.
> 
> Fixes: 9f7fa225894c ("selftests/bpf: Add bpf_testmod kernel module for testing")
> Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>