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    marvell: Remove rcu_read_lock() around XDP program invocation · 959ad7ec
    Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
    The mvneta and mvpp2 drivers have 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: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
    Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
    Cc: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-13-toke@redhat.com
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