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Message-ID: <1494514662.2489.1.camel@sandisk.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 14:57:43 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@...disk.com>
To:     "hch@....de" <hch@....de>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/smc: mark as BROKEN due to remote memory exposure

On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 09:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The driver has a lot of quality issues due to the lack of RDMA-side
> review, and explicitly bypasses APIs to register all memory once a
> connection is made, and thus allows remote access to memoery.
> 
> Mark it as broken until at least that part is fixed.

Since this is the only way to get the BROKEN marker in the v4.11 stable
kernel series:

Acked-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>

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