On 05/16/2017 08:51 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.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 <h...@lst.de> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <l...@kernel.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 >
Acked-by: Ursula Braun <ubr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
