mlx4: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation
authorToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:06:03 +0000 (18:06 +0200)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:45:18 +0000 (19:45 +0200)
commitc4411b371c104e65efb531ebd4d8892c568e3a29
tree861e042e7c0b005f802ace87d0418f6b57c3c219
parent959ad7ec066d9a61557ad6aedf77ea9b54c82df0
mlx4: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation

The mlx4 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. Also switch the RCU
dereferences in the driver loop itself to the _bh variants.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-14-toke@redhat.com
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c