4.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 19a0f7e37c0761a0a1cbf550705a6063c9675223 ] 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ursula Braun <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- net/smc/Kconfig | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- 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
