From 7fd4b288ea6a3e45ad8afbcd5ec39554d57f1ae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Abeni Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:30:43 +0200 Subject: tc/act: remove unneeded RCU lock in action callback Each lockless action currently does its own RCU locking in ->act(). This allows using plain RCU accessor, even if the context is really RCU BH. This change drops the per action RCU lock, replace the accessors with the _bh variant, cleans up a bit the surrounding code and documents the RCU status in the relevant header. No functional nor performance change is intended. The goal of this patch is clarifying that the RCU critical section used by the tc actions extends up to the classifier's caller. v1 -> v2: - preserve rcu lock in act_bpf: it's needed by eBPF helpers, as pointed out by Daniel v3 -> v4: - fixed some typos in the commit message (JiriP) Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/act_ife.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/sched/act_ife.c') diff --git a/net/sched/act_ife.c b/net/sched/act_ife.c index 3d6e265758c0..df4060e32d43 100644 --- a/net/sched/act_ife.c +++ b/net/sched/act_ife.c @@ -820,14 +820,11 @@ static int tcf_ife_act(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a, struct tcf_ife_params *p; int ret; - rcu_read_lock(); - p = rcu_dereference(ife->params); + p = rcu_dereference_bh(ife->params); if (p->flags & IFE_ENCODE) { ret = tcf_ife_encode(skb, a, res, p); - rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; } - rcu_read_unlock(); return tcf_ife_decode(skb, a, res); } -- cgit v1.2.3