From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Danil Kipnis <danil.kipnis@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Jinpu Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>,
Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>,
"roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com" <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>,
"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
"ogerlitz@mellanox.com" <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
"axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/24] InfiniBand Transport (IBTRS) and Network Block Device (IBNBD)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 16:17:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41347a8d-8a3b-c35f-801c-b4b21c37f285@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHg0HuxawAjCf711gkKKiQbbLskNsvUDhP+m32oiGFsY2BRz5g@mail.gmail.com>
>>> Hi Bart,
>>>
>>> My another 2 cents:)
>>> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 15:08 +0100, Roman Pen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> o Simple configuration of IBNBD:
>>>>> - Server side is completely passive: volumes do not need to be
>>>>> explicitly exported.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That sounds like a security hole? I think the ability to configure
>>>> whether or
>>>> not an initiator is allowed to log in is essential and also which volumes
>>>> an
>>>> initiator has access to.
>>>
>>> Our design target for well controlled production environment, so
>>> security is handle in other layer.
>>
>>
>> What will happen to a new adopter of the code you are contributing?
>
> Hi Sagi, Hi Bart,
> thanks for your feedback.
> We considered the "storage cluster" setup, where each ibnbd client has
> access to each ibnbd server. Each ibnbd server manages devices under
> his "dev_search_path" and can provide access to them to any ibnbd
> client in the network.
I don't understand how that helps?
> On top of that Ibnbd server has an additional
> "artificial" restriction, that a device can be mapped in writable-mode
> by only one client at once.
I think one would still need the option to disallow readable export as
well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-05 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-02 14:08 [PATCH 00/24] InfiniBand Transport (IBTRS) and Network Block Device (IBNBD) Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 01/24] ibtrs: public interface header to establish RDMA connections Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 02/24] ibtrs: private headers with IBTRS protocol structs and helpers Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 03/24] ibtrs: core: lib functions shared between client and server modules Roman Pen
2018-02-05 10:52 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-06 12:01 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-06 16:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-02-07 10:34 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 04/24] ibtrs: client: private header with client structs and functions Roman Pen
2018-02-05 10:59 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-06 12:23 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 05/24] ibtrs: client: main functionality Roman Pen
2018-02-02 16:54 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-05 13:27 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-05 14:14 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-05 17:05 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-05 11:19 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-05 14:19 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-05 16:24 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 06/24] ibtrs: client: statistics functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 07/24] ibtrs: client: sysfs interface functions Roman Pen
2018-02-05 11:20 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-06 12:28 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 08/24] ibtrs: server: private header with server structs and functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 09/24] ibtrs: server: main functionality Roman Pen
2018-02-05 11:29 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-06 12:46 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 10/24] ibtrs: server: statistics functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 11/24] ibtrs: server: sysfs interface functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 12/24] ibtrs: include client and server modules into kernel compilation Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 13/24] ibtrs: a bit of documentation Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 14/24] ibnbd: private headers with IBNBD protocol structs and helpers Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 15/24] ibnbd: client: private header with client structs and functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 16/24] ibnbd: client: main functionality Roman Pen
2018-02-02 15:11 ` Jens Axboe
2018-02-05 12:54 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 17/24] ibnbd: client: sysfs interface functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 18/24] ibnbd: server: private header with server structs and functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:08 ` [PATCH 19/24] ibnbd: server: main functionality Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:09 ` [PATCH 20/24] ibnbd: server: functionality for IO submission to file or block dev Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:09 ` [PATCH 21/24] ibnbd: server: sysfs interface functions Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:09 ` [PATCH 22/24] ibnbd: include client and server modules into kernel compilation Roman Pen
2018-02-02 14:09 ` [PATCH 23/24] ibnbd: a bit of documentation Roman Pen
2018-02-02 15:55 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-05 13:03 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-05 14:16 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-02 14:09 ` [PATCH 24/24] MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer for IBNBD/IBTRS modules Roman Pen
2018-02-02 16:07 ` [PATCH 00/24] InfiniBand Transport (IBTRS) and Network Block Device (IBNBD) Bart Van Assche
2018-02-02 16:40 ` Doug Ledford
2018-02-05 8:45 ` Jinpu Wang
2018-06-04 12:14 ` Danil Kipnis
2018-02-02 17:05 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-05 8:56 ` Jinpu Wang
2018-02-05 11:36 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-05 13:38 ` Danil Kipnis
2018-02-05 14:17 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2018-02-05 16:40 ` Danil Kipnis
2018-02-05 18:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-06 9:44 ` Danil Kipnis
2018-02-06 15:35 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-05 16:16 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-05 16:36 ` Jinpu Wang
2018-02-07 16:35 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-07 17:18 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-07 17:32 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-08 17:38 ` Danil Kipnis
2018-02-08 18:09 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-06-04 12:27 ` Danil Kipnis
2018-02-05 12:16 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-05 12:30 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-02-07 13:06 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-05 16:58 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-05 17:16 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-05 17:20 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-06 11:47 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-06 13:12 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-06 16:01 ` Bart Van Assche
2018-02-07 12:57 ` Roman Penyaev
2018-02-07 16:35 ` Bart Van Assche
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