From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aleksey Senin Subject: [PATCH V1 0/4] New RAW_PACKET QP type Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:35:03 +0300 Message-ID: <4C308E07.7050903@senin.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Moni Shoua , Or Gerlitz , Yiftah Shahar , Alex Rosenbaum , "Walukiewicz, Miroslaw" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org The following patches add a new QP type named RAW_PACKET. This type of QP is used in Ethernet environment and intended for creation of a whole packet, including L2 headers, from userspace. In order to prevent regular user from creating malicious packets, at the time of QP creation, kernel will check if the process has necessary permissions. This examination areis done in uverbs layer and is general for all low level drivers. -- 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