Commit a19f55f9 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

net/smc: Add warning about remote memory exposure


[ Upstream commit 19a0f7e3 ]

The driver explicitly bypasses APIs to register all memory once a
connection is made, and thus allows remote access to memory.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarUrsula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 516b3ed9
......@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ config SMC
The Linux implementation of the SMC-R solution is designed as
a separate socket family SMC.
Warning: SMC will expose all memory for remote reads and writes
once a connection is established. Don't enable this option except
for tightly controlled lab environment.
Select this option if you want to run SMC socket applications
config SMC_DIAG
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