Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 7/7] RDMA/nldev: Provide detailed QP information

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:17:22AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 01:09:17PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:18:32AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >
> > > +	/* PID == 0 means that this QP was created by kernel */
> > > +	if (qp->res.pid && nla_put_u32(msg,
> > > +				       RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_RES_PID, qp->res.pid))
> >
> > This is returning a pid in the init name space, obtained here:
> >
> > +		res->pid = task_pid_nr(current);
> >
> > And since the netlink user is not running in the init name space this
> > will return the wrong pid #, and worse potentially pids the current
> > name space should not see.
> >
> > This API also needs to filter the results and only return pids
> > visible, and translate the pids as well..
> 
> Correct, PID namespace wasn't taken into account, exactly as it wasn't
> taken in CMA. So, right now, CMA netlink statistics is returning wrong
> and unfiltered PIDs. How do you want to progress with that part of the code?

It should be fixed or deleted.

> I personally have no plans to fix CMA netlink code and for my opinion it
> should be removed, instead of beating that dead horse.

What is so wrong with it you can't use it anyhow?

Jason
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