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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
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