From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@oracle.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RDMA subsystem namespace related questions (was Re: Finding the namespace of a struct ib_device)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 11:39:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201009143940.GT5177@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <727de097-4338-c1d8-73a0-1fce0854f8af@oracle.com>
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:49:30PM +0800, Ka-Cheong Poon wrote:
> As I mentioned before, this is a very serious restriction on how
> the RDMA subsystem can be used in a namespace environment by kernel
> module. The reason given for this restriction is that any kernel
> socket without a corresponding user space file descriptor is "rogue".
> All Internet protocol code create a kernel socket without user
> interaction. Are they all "rogue"?
You should work with Chuck to make NFS use namespaces properly and
then you can propose what changes might be needed with a proper
justification.
The rules for lifetime on IB clients are tricky, and the interaction
with namespaces makes it all a lot more murky.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-03 14:02 Finding the namespace of a struct ib_device Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-03 17:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-04 4:01 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-04 11:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-04 14:02 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-06 7:44 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-07 3:33 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-07 7:18 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-07 8:24 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-07 9:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-07 9:28 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-07 10:22 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-07 13:48 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-29 16:57 ` RDMA subsystem namespace related questions (was Re: Finding the namespace of a struct ib_device) Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-09-29 17:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-30 10:32 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-02 14:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-05 10:27 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-05 13:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-05 13:57 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-05 14:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-05 15:02 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-05 15:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-06 9:36 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-06 12:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-07 8:38 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-07 11:16 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-08 10:22 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-08 10:36 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-08 11:08 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-08 16:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-08 16:21 ` Chuck Lever
2020-10-08 16:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-09 4:49 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-09 14:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-10-09 14:48 ` Chuck Lever
2020-10-09 14:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-09 15:00 ` Chuck Lever
2020-10-09 15:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-09 15:27 ` Chuck Lever
2020-10-09 15:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-09 15:52 ` Chuck Lever
2020-10-12 8:20 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2020-10-16 18:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-16 20:49 ` Chuck Lever
2020-10-19 18:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-07 12:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-08 10:49 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
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