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. Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c index c33b4e837515..e2b290135fd9 100644 --- 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 */ -- 2.31.1
