Re: [PATCH] net/smc: mark as BROKEN due to remote memory exposure

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Dave,

this patch has not been superceeded by anything, can you explain why it
has been marked as such in patchworks?

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 02:57:43PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 09:26 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The driver has a lot of quality issues due to the lack of RDMA-side
> > review, and explicitly bypasses APIs to register all memory once a
> > connection is made, and thus allows remote access to memoery.
> > 
> > Mark it as broken until at least that part is fixed.
> 
> Since this is the only way to get the BROKEN marker in the v4.11 stable
> kernel series:
> 
> Acked-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx>---end quoted text---



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