On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Sasha Khapyorsky <sas...@voltaire.com> wrote: > On 11:56 Wed 30 Dec , Hal Rosenstock wrote: >> >> Yes but why would SMA mess up attribute modifier though ? > > How could I know? :) > >> So is this >> just detecting OpenSM bug with AM ? > > It is not for OpenSM internal bugs detecting. It is "don't trust to > information from a network", in this specific case attribute modifier > elements are used as pointers indexes (sl2vl tables),
Yes, I noticed that but... > so OpenSM don't need to crash due to broken SMAs or other sort of attack. I thought this was only done when these issues are actually found and in general we are relying on compliance. Is there a specific known issue here ? If we are worrying about this as a general principle, there are more places to bullet proof like this. I am wondering about why the exception here. -- Hal > > Sasha > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
