From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>, Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
Itay Avraham <itayavr@nvidia.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
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Chiara Meiohas <cmeiohas@nvidia.com>,
Maher Sanalla <msanalla@nvidia.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Firmware LSM hook
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:39:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260426103957.GH172828@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260424141921.GA3611611@ziepe.ca>
On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 11:19:21AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 05:09:50PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > > > Leon mentioned that different firmware revisions would have different
> > > > parameters for a given opcode, and that one would need to inspect
> > > > those parameters to properly filter the command. Is that not true, or
> > > > am I misreading or misunderstanding Leon's comments?
> > >
> > > They are ABI stable, so there will be rules about future changes that
> > > old software can follow to ignore or reject future things it doesn't
> > > understand.
> >
> > It is wishful thinking and applicable only to mlx5 devices. No one
> > promises that other devices follow same ABI rules.
>
> Well, I will definately kick them out of fwctl if they don't.
It is easy to say but harder to follow. The kernel includes many devices that
exist only in specific hyperscale environments, where the update cycle is
tightly controlled. They easily can break FW backward compatibility.
Thanks
>
> Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-26 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20260331-fw-lsm-hook-v2-0-78504703df1f@nvidia.com>
[not found] ` <20260409121230.GA720371@unreal>
2026-04-09 12:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Firmware LSM hook Roberto Sassu
2026-04-09 12:45 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-04-09 21:04 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-12 9:00 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-04-13 1:38 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-13 15:53 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-04-13 16:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-13 17:36 ` Casey Schaufler
2026-04-13 19:09 ` Casey Schaufler
2026-04-13 22:36 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-13 23:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-14 17:05 ` Casey Schaufler
2026-04-14 19:09 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-14 20:09 ` Casey Schaufler
2026-04-14 20:44 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-14 22:42 ` Casey Schaufler
2026-04-15 21:03 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-15 21:21 ` Casey Schaufler
2026-04-14 20:27 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-15 13:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-15 21:40 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-17 19:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-21 0:58 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-24 14:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-24 20:59 ` Paul Moore
2026-04-24 22:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-23 14:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2026-04-24 14:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-04-26 10:39 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2026-04-23 13:05 ` Leon Romanovsky
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