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bpf: bpf_lock on kallsysms doesn't need to be irqsave

Hannes rightfully spotted that the bpf_lock doesn't need to be
irqsave variant. We never perform any such updates where this
would be necessary (neither right now nor in future), therefore
relax this further.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Hannes Frederic Sowa 8 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 8 deletions
  1. 4 8
      kernel/bpf/core.c

+ 4 - 8
kernel/bpf/core.c

@@ -394,27 +394,23 @@ static bool bpf_prog_kallsyms_verify_off(const struct bpf_prog *fp)
 
 void bpf_prog_kallsyms_add(struct bpf_prog *fp)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
 	if (!bpf_prog_kallsyms_candidate(fp) ||
 	    !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&bpf_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_bh(&bpf_lock);
 	bpf_prog_ksym_node_add(fp->aux);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bpf_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&bpf_lock);
 }
 
 void bpf_prog_kallsyms_del(struct bpf_prog *fp)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-
 	if (!bpf_prog_kallsyms_candidate(fp))
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&bpf_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_bh(&bpf_lock);
 	bpf_prog_ksym_node_del(fp->aux);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bpf_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&bpf_lock);
 }
 
 static struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_kallsyms_find(unsigned long addr)