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Message-Id: <20210609103326.278782-7-toke@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed,  9 Jun 2021 12:33:15 +0200
From:   Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
To:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...il.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 06/17] bnxt: remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation

The bnxt driver has rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs around XDP
program invocations. However, the actual lifetime of the objects referred
by the XDP program invocation is longer, all the way through to the call to
xdp_do_flush(), making the scope of the rcu_read_lock() too small. This
turns out to be harmless because it all happens in a single NAPI poll
cycle (and thus under local_bh_disable()), but it makes the rcu_read_lock()
misleading.

Rather than extend the scope of the rcu_read_lock(), just get rid of it
entirely. With the addition of RCU annotations to the XDP_REDIRECT map
types that take bh execution into account, lockdep even understands this to
be safe, so there's really no reason to keep it around.

Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c
index ec9564e584e0..bee6e091a997 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c
@@ -138,9 +138,7 @@ bool bnxt_rx_xdp(struct bnxt *bp, struct bnxt_rx_ring_info *rxr, u16 cons,
 	xdp_prepare_buff(&xdp, *data_ptr - offset, offset, *len, false);
 	orig_data = xdp.data;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
 	act = bpf_prog_run_xdp(xdp_prog, &xdp);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	tx_avail = bnxt_tx_avail(bp, txr);
 	/* If the tx ring is not full, we must not update the rx producer yet
-- 
2.31.1

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