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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christoph Hellwig
19a0f7e37c net/smc: Add warning about remote memory exposure
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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-05-16 14:49:43 -04:00
Ursula Braun
f16a7dd5cf smc: netlink interface for SMC sockets
Support for SMC socket monitoring via netlink sockets of protocol
NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-09 16:07:41 -05:00
Ursula Braun
ac7138746e smc: establish new socket family
* enable smc module loading and unloading
 * register new socket family
 * basic smc socket creation and deletion
 * use backing TCP socket to run CLC (Connection Layer Control)
   handshake of SMC protocol
 * Setup for infiniband traffic is implemented in follow-on patches.
   For now fallback to TCP socket is always used.

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-09 16:07:38 -05:00