[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 087/206] bpf: Remove recursion prevention from rcu free callback

[Sasha Levin]

From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 8a37963c7ac9ecb7f86f8ebda020e3f8d6d7b8a0 ]

If an element is freed via RCU then recursion into BPF instrumentation
functions is not a concern. The element is already detached from the map
and the RCU callback does not hold any locks on which a kprobe, perf event
or tracepoint attached BPF program could deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200224145643.259118710@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
index 1b28fb006763a..3f3ed33bd2fdc 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
@@ -667,15 +667,7 @@ static void htab_elem_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
 	struct htab_elem *l = container_of(head, struct htab_elem, rcu);
 	struct bpf_htab *htab = l->htab;
 
-	/* must increment bpf_prog_active to avoid kprobe+bpf triggering while
-	 * we're calling kfree, otherwise deadlock is possible if kprobes
-	 * are placed somewhere inside of slub
-	 */
-	preempt_disable();
-	__this_cpu_inc(bpf_prog_active);
 	htab_elem_free(htab, l);
-	__this_cpu_dec(bpf_prog_active);
-	preempt_enable();
 }
 
 static void htab_put_fd_value(struct bpf_htab *htab, struct htab_elem *l)
-- 
2.25.1