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IB/mlx5: Enable DEVX on IB
authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:45:21 +0000 (21:45 +0300)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:01:33 +0000 (13:01 -0600)
commitef3c7ea9ddfb63aedcd16b016e8fe07a16bf0576
tree37562fb5fa578afa25fe922594035f47fa64bc5d
parent40c8bbd68a7345c75af7347df6cd1ba13ad9224e
IB/mlx5: Enable DEVX on IB

IB has additional protections with SELinux that cannot be extended to the
DEVX domain. SELinux can restrict access to pkeys. The first version of
DEVX blocked IB entirely until this could be understood.

Since DEVX requires CAP_NET_RAW, it supersedes the SELinux restriction and
allows userspace to form arbitrary packets with arbitrary pkeys.

Thus we enable IB for DEVX when CAP_NET_RAW is given.

Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c