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Martin KaFai Lau e8b02296a6 bpf: Avoid taking spinlock in bpf_task_storage_get if potential deadlock is detected
bpf_task_storage_get() does a lookup and optionally inserts
new data if BPF_LOCAL_STORAGE_GET_F_CREATE is present.

During lookup, it will cache the lookup result and caching requires to
acquire a spinlock.  When potential deadlock is detected (by the
bpf_task_storage_busy pcpu-counter added in
commit bc235cdb42 ("bpf: Prevent deadlock from recursive bpf_task_storage_[get|delete]")),
the current behavior is returning NULL immediately to avoid deadlock.  It is
too pessimistic.  This patch will go ahead to do a lookup (which is a
lockless operation) but it will avoid caching it in order to avoid
acquiring the spinlock.

When lookup fails to find the data and BPF_LOCAL_STORAGE_GET_F_CREATE
is set, an insertion is needed and this requires acquiring a spinlock.
This patch will still return NULL when a potential deadlock is detected.

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025184524.3526117-5-martin.lau@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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