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authorDmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>2023-08-30 16:06:38 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>2023-08-30 16:06:38 -0700
commit1ac731c529cd4d6adbce134754b51ff7d822b145 (patch)
tree143ab3f35ca5f3b69f583c84e6964b17139c2ec1 /drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h
parent07b4c950f27bef0362dc6ad7ee713aab61d58149 (diff)
parent54116d442e001e1b6bd482122043b1870998a1f3 (diff)
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 6.6 merge window.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h
index ad320adaf321..b9734904f5f0 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS)
int mlx5_ib_fs_init(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev);
+void mlx5_ib_fs_cleanup_anchor(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev);
#else
static inline int mlx5_ib_fs_init(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
{
@@ -21,9 +22,24 @@ static inline int mlx5_ib_fs_init(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
mutex_init(&dev->flow_db->lock);
return 0;
}
+
+inline void mlx5_ib_fs_cleanup_anchor(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev) {}
#endif
+
static inline void mlx5_ib_fs_cleanup(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev)
{
+ /* When a steering anchor is created, a special flow table is also
+ * created for the user to reference. Since the user can reference it,
+ * the kernel cannot trust that when the user destroys the steering
+ * anchor, they no longer reference the flow table.
+ *
+ * To address this issue, when a user destroys a steering anchor, only
+ * the flow steering rule in the table is destroyed, but the table
+ * itself is kept to deal with the above scenario. The remaining
+ * resources are only removed when the RDMA device is destroyed, which
+ * is a safe assumption that all references are gone.
+ */
+ mlx5_ib_fs_cleanup_anchor(dev);
kfree(dev->flow_db);
}
#endif /* _MLX5_IB_FS_H */