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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net/smc: mark as BROKEN due to remote memory exposure
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 09:26:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170510072627.12060-1-hch@lst.de> (raw)

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.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

---
 net/smc/Kconfig | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/smc/Kconfig b/net/smc/Kconfig
index c717ef0896aa..fe6b78bc515f 100644
--- a/net/smc/Kconfig
+++ b/net/smc/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config SMC
 	tristate "SMC socket protocol family"
-	depends on INET && INFINIBAND
+	depends on INET && INFINIBAND && BROKEN
 	---help---
 	  SMC-R provides a "sockets over RDMA" solution making use of
 	  RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology to upgrade
@@ -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
-- 
2.11.0

             reply	other threads:[~2017-05-10  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-10  7:26 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-05-11 14:57 ` [PATCH] net/smc: mark as BROKEN due to remote memory exposure Bart Van Assche
     [not found]   ` <1494514662.2489.1.camel-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-14  5:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-14  5:58       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-14  5:58       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-14 15:51       ` David Miller
2017-05-14 19:08         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-15  0:44           ` David Miller
     [not found]             ` <20170514.204404.1844909849561204299.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-15  1:58               ` Parav Pandit
2017-05-15  1:58                 ` Parav Pandit
2017-05-16 15:57               ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 15:57                 ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 16:29                 ` David Miller
2017-05-16 16:29                   ` David Miller
     [not found]                   ` <20170516.122923.869994491617365845.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-16 16:30                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 16:30                       ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]                       ` <20170516163041.GA5132-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-16 16:33                         ` David Miller
2017-05-16 16:33                           ` David Miller
2017-05-16 16:35                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-16 16:36                         ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 16:36                           ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 16:41                           ` David Miller
2017-05-16 16:41                             ` David Miller
2017-05-16 17:12                             ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 16:42                   ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 16:49                     ` David Miller
2017-05-16 16:49                       ` David Miller
     [not found]                       ` <20170516.124945.386235742645153398.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-16 17:20                         ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 17:20                           ` Doug Ledford
     [not found]                           ` <1494955244.3259.130.camel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-16 17:36                             ` David Miller
2017-05-16 17:36                               ` David Miller
     [not found]                               ` <20170516.133644.850927380166261577.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-16 18:03                                 ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 18:03                                   ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 18:52                                   ` David Miller
2017-05-16 18:52                                     ` David Miller
     [not found]                                     ` <20170516.145249.871010194359061722.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-16 19:28                                       ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-16 19:28                                         ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-17 20:37                                         ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-17 22:37                                           ` Parav Pandit
     [not found]                                             ` <VI1PR0502MB3008604A216B388A440A8B53D1E70-o1MPJYiShExKsLr+rGaxW8DSnupUy6xnnBOFsp37pqbUKgpGm//BTAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-18  0:07                                               ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-18  0:07                                                 ` Doug Ledford
2017-05-18  4:22                                                 ` Leon Romanovsky
     [not found]         ` <20170514.115116.499149210596634881.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-15  6:41           ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-05-15  6:41             ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-05-15  7:18           ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-05-15  7:18             ` Leon Romanovsky

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