thunderx: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation

The thunderx 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: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-10-toke@redhat.com

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
index c33b4e83751593086cb04c99ed5c20f523dfb2d3..e2b290135fd97f1c8d3db60b3cef58b911263829 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c
@@ -555,9 +555,7 @@ static inline bool nicvf_xdp_rx(struct nicvf *nic, struct bpf_prog *prog,
        xdp_prepare_buff(&xdp, hard_start, data - hard_start, len, false);
        orig_data = xdp.data;
 
-       rcu_read_lock();
        action = bpf_prog_run_xdp(prog, &xdp);
-       rcu_read_unlock();
 
        len = xdp.data_end - xdp.data;
        /* Check if XDP program has changed headers */