From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] IB/core: Add rdma netlink helper functions Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:52:23 -0600 Message-ID: <20150805005223.GA28789@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1436463268-32365-1-git-send-email-kaike.wan@intel.com> <1436463268-32365-3-git-send-email-kaike.wan@intel.com> <20150804031534.GA28707@obsidianresearch.com> <20150805004830.GA23589@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150805004830.GA23589-W4f6Xiosr+yv7QzWx2u06xL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "ira.weiny" Cc: kaike.wan-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, John Fleck List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 08:48:31PM -0400, ira.weiny wrote: > We are using Netlink multicast. I believe that netlink_bind only allows root > to bind to multicast. That is a good start... > That said I have not tested the ability to change the timeout settings if one > were to bind without multicast and send a message. I rather expect that needs fixing.. And I bet sequence numbers are sufficiently predictable that the path reply should be restricted to root as well. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html