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

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 05:28:58PM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> We certainly need to be able to get detailed cm_id information.  At least
> cm_id bound device, cm_id state, port num, qp-id associated with this cm_id,
> and src/dst ipaddrs/ports.  However, it could be fetched and added to qp
> attributes.  Ala iw_cxgb4's debugfs "qps" file:
>
> [root@stevo3 stevo]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/iw_cxgb4/0000\:04\:00.4/qps
> rc qp sq id 1136 rq id 1137 state 1 onchip 0 ep tid 12028 state 7
> 172.16.4.3:58725/58725->172.16.4.4:7174/7174
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It can be one option, another is to add new RDMA_RESTRACK_CMA object and
expose all relevant information with rdmatool, e.g. "rdma resoruce cma link cxgb4/1".

Thanks

>
> Steve.
>
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