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[rdma-next,3/6] RDMA/mlx5: Relax DEVX access upon modify commands

Message ID 7407d5ed35dc427c1097699e12b49c01e1073406.1706185318.git.leon@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series Collection of mlx5_ib fixes | expand

Commit Message

Leon Romanovsky Jan. 25, 2024, 12:30 p.m. UTC 
From: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>

Relax DEVX access upon modify commands to be UVERBS_ACCESS_READ.

The kernel doesn't need to protect what firmware protects, or what
causes no damage to anyone but the user.

As firmware needs to protect itself from parallel access to the same
object, don't block parallel modify/query commands on the same object in
the kernel side.

This change will allow user space application to run parallel updates to
different entries in the same bulk object.

Tested-by: Tamar Mashiah <tmashiah@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
index 4d8f5180134e..9d91790a2af2 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c
@@ -2950,7 +2950,7 @@  DECLARE_UVERBS_NAMED_METHOD(
 	MLX5_IB_METHOD_DEVX_OBJ_MODIFY,
 	UVERBS_ATTR_IDR(MLX5_IB_ATTR_DEVX_OBJ_MODIFY_HANDLE,
 			UVERBS_IDR_ANY_OBJECT,
-			UVERBS_ACCESS_WRITE,
+			UVERBS_ACCESS_READ,
 			UA_MANDATORY),
 	UVERBS_ATTR_PTR_IN(
 		MLX5_IB_ATTR_DEVX_OBJ_MODIFY_CMD_IN,