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[rdma-next] RDMA/mlx4: remove bogus dev_base_lock usage

Message ID 20201208193928.1500893-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series [rdma-next] RDMA/mlx4: remove bogus dev_base_lock usage | expand

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netdev/tree_selection success Not a local patch

Commit Message

Vladimir Oltean Dec. 8, 2020, 7:39 p.m. UTC
It is not clear what this lock protects. If the authors wanted to ensure
that "dev" does not disappear, that is impossible, given the following
code path:

mlx4_ib_netdev_event (under RTNL mutex)
-> mlx4_ib_scan_netdevs
   -> mlx4_ib_update_qps

Also, the dev_base_lock does not protect dev->dev_addr either.

So it serves no purpose here. Remove it.

Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Jason Gunthorpe Dec. 10, 2020, 9:08 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:39:28PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> It is not clear what this lock protects. If the authors wanted to ensure
> that "dev" does not disappear, that is impossible, given the following
> code path:
> 
> mlx4_ib_netdev_event (under RTNL mutex)
> -> mlx4_ib_scan_netdevs
>    -> mlx4_ib_update_qps
> 
> Also, the dev_base_lock does not protect dev->dev_addr either.
> 
> So it serves no purpose here. Remove it.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason
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diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
index f0864f40ea1a..e3cd402c079a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
@@ -2265,10 +2265,7 @@  static void mlx4_ib_update_qps(struct mlx4_ib_dev *ibdev,
 	u64 release_mac = MLX4_IB_INVALID_MAC;
 	struct mlx4_ib_qp *qp;
 
-	read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
 	new_smac = mlx4_mac_to_u64(dev->dev_addr);
-	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
-
 	atomic64_set(&ibdev->iboe.mac[port - 1], new_smac);
 
 	/* no need for update QP1 and mac registration in non-SRIOV */