netdev - [PATCH net v1] net/smc: Add warning about remote memory exposure

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Message-Id: <20170516065138.24789-1-leon@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 16 May 2017 09:51:38 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        iinux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [PATCH net v1] net/smc: Add warning about remote memory exposure

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

The driver explicitly bypasses APIs to register all memory once a
connection is made, and thus allows remote access to memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
---
Dave,
Can you please forward this patch to stable?
Thanks
---
 Changes from v0:
  * Remove BROKEN Kconfig option as a followup of this discussion
    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/760454/
  * Refine commit message
---
 net/smc/Kconfig | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/smc/Kconfig b/net/smc/Kconfig
index c717ef0896aa..33954852f3f8 100644
--- a/net/smc/Kconfig
+++ b/net/smc/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ config SMC
 	  The Linux implementation of the SMC-R solution is designed as
 	  a separate socket family SMC.

+	  Warning: SMC will expose all memory for remote reads and writes
+	  once a connection is established.  Don't enable this option except
+	  for tightly controlled lab environment.
+
 	  Select this option if you want to run SMC socket applications

 config SMC_DIAG
--
2.12.2