MPSAFE and KERNEL_LOCK

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

A traditional ethernet driver receives input via an interrupt routine
and passes packets to ether_input(). The data is protected by disabling
the receive interrupt.

In multiprocessor land, the same is achieved by also acquiring the
big kernel lock.

Current code however queues incoming packets in a percpuq and passes
things through a softint tagged as MPSAFE. The softint handler is calling
ether_input without holding the kernel lock.

There is another unprotected path in bpf_write calling into the
_if_input vector directly without locking (bpf device is tagged MPSAFE)
and without disabling interrupts.

Did I miss something?

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