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Commit d5789621 authored by Toke Høiland-Jørgensen's avatar Toke Høiland-Jørgensen Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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nfp: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation


The nfp 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.

While this is not actually an issue for the nfp driver because it doesn't
support XDP_REDIRECT (and thus doesn't call xdp_do_flush()), the
rcu_read_lock() is still unneeded. And 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>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com>
Cc: oss-drivers@netronome.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-15-toke@redhat.com
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