On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:44:48AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > > On 1/29/2019 7:26 AM, Joel Nider wrote: > > As discussed at LPC'18, there is a need to be able to register a memory > > region (MR) on behalf of another process. One example is the case of > > post-copy container migration, in which CRIU is responsible for setting > > up the migration, but the contents of the memory are from the migrating > > process. In this case, we want all RDMA READ requests to be served by > > the address space of the migration process directly (not by CRIU). This > > patchset implements a new uverbs command which allows an application to > > register a memory region in the address space of another process. > > Hey Joel, > > Dumb question: > > Doesn't this open a security hole by allowing any process to register > memory in any other process? I agree, Changing all MR to use FOLL_REMOTE seems wrong. Ira > > Steve. > >
