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Commit 4415db6c authored by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen's avatar Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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qede: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation


The qede 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: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>
Cc: gr-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-16-toke@redhat.com
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