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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Martin KaFai Lau" <kafai@fb.com>,
	"Hangbin Liu" <liuhangbin@gmail.com>,
	"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <brouer@redhat.com>,
	"Magnus Karlsson" <magnus.karlsson@gmail.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
	"Sunil Goutham" <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v4 09/19] thunderx: remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:07:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210623110727.221922-10-toke@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210623110727.221922-1-toke@redhat.com>

The thunderx 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: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index c33b4e837515..e2b290135fd9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -555,9 +555,7 @@ static inline bool nicvf_xdp_rx(struct nicvf *nic, struct bpf_prog *prog,
 	xdp_prepare_buff(&xdp, hard_start, data - hard_start, len, false);
 	orig_data = xdp.data;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
 	action = bpf_prog_run_xdp(prog, &xdp);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	len = xdp.data_end - xdp.data;
 	/* Check if XDP program has changed headers */
-- 
2.32.0


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