This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: Fix incorrect access of RCU-protected xdp_prog to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5e-fix-incorrect-access-of-rcu-protected-xdp_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ce1c45688e165f7e96a952088325dacd3e763507 Author: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 22 12:49:51 2020 +0300 net/mlx5e: Fix incorrect access of RCU-protected xdp_prog [ Upstream commit 1a50cf9a67ff2241c2949d30bc11c8dd4280eef8 ] rq->xdp_prog is RCU-protected and should be accessed only with rcu_access_pointer for the NULL check in mlx5e_poll_rx_cq. rq->xdp_prog may change on the fly only from one non-NULL value to another non-NULL value, so the checks in mlx5e_xdp_handle and mlx5e_poll_rx_cq will have the same result during one NAPI cycle, meaning that no additional synchronization is needed. Fixes: fe45386a2082 ("net/mlx5e: Use RCU to protect rq->xdp_prog") Signed-off-by: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c index 64c8ac5eabf6a..a0a4398408b85 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ int mlx5e_poll_rx_cq(struct mlx5e_cq *cq, int budget) } while ((++work_done < budget) && (cqe = mlx5_cqwq_get_cqe(cqwq))); out: - if (rq->xdp_prog) + if (rcu_access_pointer(rq->xdp_prog)) mlx5e_xdp_rx_poll_complete(rq); mlx5_cqwq_update_db_record(cqwq);