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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
The mvneta and mvpp2 drivers have 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: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-13-toke@redhat.com
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