netdev - Re: [net-next v2 6/6] ixgbe: Add malicious driver detection support

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Message-ID: <CAJ3xEMgAOMM3g0sqc6AfWLWf_VKwuHQGh_ZSYfmeQg=JotGbbg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:28:59 +0300
From:   Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:     "Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
Cc:     "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Greenwalt, Paul" <paul.greenwalt@...el.com>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "nhorman@...hat.com" <nhorman@...hat.com>,
        "sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>,
        "jogreene@...hat.com" <jogreene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 6/6] ixgbe: Add malicious driver detection support

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Tantilov, Emil S
<emil.s.tantilov@...el.com> wrote:

> Mainly because I am not sure that other (non-Intel) drivers will benefit from
> such an option. In normal operation this functionality should not cause issues
> and if it doesn't we may be able to deprecate the private flag in the future.

If you think this functionality makes sense any driver running over HW
implementing
it would like to be able to expose that and hence you better not use
private flag.

Are we sure the trust UAPI can't be extended for that matter?