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. Cc: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 ec9564e584e0..bee6e091a997 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 -- 2.31.1
