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From: =?UTF-8?q?Toke=20H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= <toke@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:05:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bnxt: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation
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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.

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-9-toke@redhat.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 ec9564e584e08..bee6e091a9973 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
-- 
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