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@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <redacted>
---
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