Re: [PATCH rdma-core] verbs: Allow all commands to be invoked by ioctl

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On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 14:41 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 20:58 +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Using the new UVERBS_METHOD_INVOKE_WRITE interface all of the existing
> > write() commands can be immediately converted to execute over ioctl.
> > 
> > If -DIOCTL_MODE=ioctl is set then only the IOCTL interface is supported,
> > and write will not be called. Otherwise the 'both' mode will auto
> > detect the kernel support and use it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I've pulled this patch, the official uABI headers update commit, and a
> commit to change the default to both for the ioctl mode into a PR that
> is currently undergoing Travis CI.  If it passes, I'll merge it and we
> will officially have a ready to test ioctl mode API that can be utilized
> to get around the fork() issues created by the security fix to the
> write() path support.
> 

Travis checks passed, merged.

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