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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: longli@microsoft.com, Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/09] Implement direct user I/O interfaces for RDMA
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 23:42:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180518064245.GA9425@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5eaf67d-4b0d-9206-a016-67cb3b5a0df8@talpey.com>

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 07:10:04PM -0400, Tom Talpey wrote:
> What's the security risk? This type of direct i/o behavior is not
> uncommon, and can certainly be made safe, using the appropriate
> memory registration and protection domains. Any risk needs to be
> stated explicitly, and mitigation provided, or at least described.

And in fact it is the same behavior you'll see on NFS over RDMA, or
a block device or any local fs over SRP/iSER/NVMe over Fabrics..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-18  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-18  0:22 [RFC PATCH 00/09] Implement direct user I/O interfaces for RDMA Long Li
2018-05-17 23:10 ` Tom Talpey
2018-05-18  6:03   ` Long Li
2018-05-18  6:44     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-19  0:58     ` Tom Talpey
2018-05-18  6:42   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 01/09] Introduce offset for the 1st page in data transfer structures Long Li
2018-05-18  6:37   ` Steve French
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 02/09] Change wdata alloc to support direct pages Long Li
2018-05-19  1:05   ` Tom Talpey
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 03/09] Change rdata " Long Li
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 04/09] Change function to support offset when reading pages Long Li
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 05/09] Change RDMA send to regonize page offset in the 1st page Long Li
2018-05-19  1:09   ` Tom Talpey
2018-05-19  5:54     ` Long Li
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 06/09] Change RDMA recv to support " Long Li
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 07/09] Support page offset in memory regsitrations Long Li
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 08/09] Implement direct file I/O interfaces Long Li
2018-05-18  0:22 ` [RFC PATCH 09/09] Introduce cache=rdma moutning option Long Li
2018-05-18  7:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-05-18 19:00     ` Long Li
2018-05-18 20:44       ` Steve French
2018-05-18 20:58         ` Long Li
2018-05-19  1:20           ` Tom Talpey

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