linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/core: Rely on vendors to set right IOVA

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Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:56:46 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Aharon Landau <aharonl@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/core: Rely on vendors to set right IOVA

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 08:55:22AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Aharon Landau <aharonl@...dia.com>
> 
> The vendors set the IOVA of newly created MRs in rereg_user_mr, so don't
> overwrite it. That ensures that this field is set only if IB_MR_REREG_TRANS
> flag is provided.

How is a "vendor" involved with this?  This should all be upstream code.