Re: [PATCH v3 06/17] IB/core: Add support for extended query device caps

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With the suggested change here, buffer overflow won't happen,
> but the error is silently ignored, allowing uverb to return a
> partial result, which is likely not expected by userspace as
> it's a bit difficult to handle it gracefully.
>
> So this has to be removed, and a check on userspace response
> buffer must be added to ib_uverbs_ex_query_device() instead.

I'm not sure of the specifics of the change you're suggesting here.
Would it be OK to go forward with the patch set we have, and then fix
this issue before 3.19-rc2?
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