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

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On Sun, 2017-05-14 at 11:51 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 07:58:48 +0200
> 
> > this patch has not been superceeded by anything, can you explain why
> > it has been marked as such in patchworks?
> 
> I think you're being overbearing by requiring this to be marked BROKEN
> and I would like you to explore other ways with the authors to fix
> whatever perceived problems you think SMC has.
> 
> You claim that this is somehow "urgent" is false.  You can ask
> distributions to disable SMC or whatever in the short term if it
> reallly, truly, bothers you.

Hello Dave,

There is agreement that the user-space API for using the SMC protocol must
be changed, namely by dropping AF_SMC and by making applications use the
SMC protocol through socket(AF_INET..., SOCK_STREAM, ...). What is your
plan to avoid that applications start using and depending on AF_SMC?

Thanks,

Bart.




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