linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR

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Message-ID: <14810de7b209468bc36fdb696db639242bbad9f9.camel@wdc.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Apr 2018 02:13:12 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
To:     "jgg@...pe.ca" <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        "gthelen@...gle.com" <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        "dledford@...hat.com" <dledford@...hat.com>
CC:     "hch@....de" <hch@....de>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tarick@...gle.com" <tarick@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] IB: make INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS configurable

On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 15:34 -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:
> Allow INFINIBAND without INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS because fuzzing has been
> finding fair number of CM bugs.  So provide option to disable it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
> Cc: Tarick Bedeir <tarick@...gle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/Kconfig | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig b/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
> index ee270e065ba9..2a972ed6851b 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
> @@ -61,9 +61,12 @@ config INFINIBAND_ON_DEMAND_PAGING
>  	  pages on demand instead.
>  
>  config INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
> -	bool
> +	bool "RDMA/CM"
>  	depends on INFINIBAND
>  	default y
> +	---help---
> +	  Support for RDMA communication manager (CM).
> +	  This allows for a generic connection abstraction over RDMA.

Hello Greg,

Please provide a cover letter when posting a patch series. Such a cover
letter is not only informative but also makes it easy for people who want
to comment on a patch series as a whole. I have a question that applies
to the entire patch series. The RDMA/CM code defines functions like
rdma_create_id() and rdma_create_qp(). If I search through the kernel tree
for callers of these functions then I find several more kernel modules than
the ones that are modified by this patch series:

$ git grep -lE '[[:blank:]](rdma_create_id|rdma_create_qp)\('
drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/ib_isert.c
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/ib_srpt.c
drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.c
drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.h
fs/cifs/smbdirect.c
include/rdma/rdma_cm.h
net/9p/trans_rdma.c
net/rds/ib.c
net/rds/ib_cm.c
net/rds/rdma_transport.c
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c

Are you sure that this patch series is complete?

Thanks,

Bart.