Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 00/14] Refactor ib_uverbs_write path

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On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 18:12 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Changelog v0 -> v1:
>  * Added Dennis's ROB
>  * Dropped for now "RDMA/verbs: Drop uverbs_ex_mask" patch, I'm waiting
>    for mlx5 shared code in order to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts.

This didn't turn out to be as true as you'd hoped I think.  I had to fix
up a few of these.  I stopped after this series and pushed it to my wip
for next branch so you can confirm it all merged properly.  Assuming
it's right, series applied.

>  * Added patch to convert __u32 to kernel type
>  * Simplified more command flags checks
>  * Rebased
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This series comes as an outcome of [1] which was sent to rdma-rc
> and it should be applied on top of that patch.
> 
> During review process of that patch, we realized that the
> ib_uverbs_write() has number of flaws and this series
> tries to fix them:
> 1. Localize all processing and verification code in specific functions.
> 2. Fix the command mask insufficient checks.
> 3. Simplify code to allow drop uverbs_ex_mask and in the future we
>    will drop uverbs_mask too.
> 4. Fix differences in error codes.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=151851719021404&w=2
> 
> Leon Romanovsky (14):
>   RDMA/uverbs: Convert command mask validity check function to be bool
>   RDMA/uverbs: Update sizeof users
>   RDMA/uverbs: Refactor flags checks and update return value
>   RDMA/uverbs: Fail as early as possible if not enough header data was
>     provided
>   RDMA/uverbs: Return not supported error code for unsupported commands
>   RDMA/uverbs: Unify return values of not supported command
>   RDMA/uverbs: Refactor command header processing
>   RDMA/uverbs: Properly check command supported mask
>   RDMA/uverbs: Move uncontext check before SRCU read lock
>   RDMa/uverbs: Copy ex_hdr outside of SRCU read lock
>   RDMA/uverbs: Refactor the header validation logic
>   RDMA/uverbs: Replace user's types with kernel's types
>   RDMA/uverbs: Reduce number of command header flags checks
>   RDMA/verbs: Return proper error code for not supported system call
> 
>  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 214 +++++++++++++++-------------------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c       |  46 ++++----
>  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_verbs.h     |   5 +-
>  3 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> 2.16.1
> 

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