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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org,
	BMT@zurich.ibm.com, tom@talpey.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 3/3] RDMA/siw: Require non-zero 6-byte MACs for soft iWARP
Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 16:58:51 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZFVf+wzF6Px8nlVR@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <168330138101.5953.12575990094340826016.stgit@oracle-102.nfsv4bat.org>

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 11:43:11AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> 
> In the past, LOOPBACK and NONE (tunnel) devices had all-zero MAC
> addresses. siw_device_create() would fall back to copying the
> device's name in those cases, because an all-zero MAC address breaks
> the RDMA core IP-to-device lookup mechanism.

Why not just make up a dummy address in SIW? It shouldn't need to leak
out of it.. It is just some artifact of how the iWarp stuff has been
designed

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-05 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-05 15:41 [PATCH RFC 0/3] siw on tunnel devices Chuck Lever
2023-05-05 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 1/3] net/tun: Ensure tun devices have a MAC address Chuck Lever
2023-05-05 16:59   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-05-05 17:09     ` Chuck Lever III
2023-05-05 15:42 ` [PATCH RFC 2/3] net/lo: Ensure lo " Chuck Lever
2023-05-05 16:57   ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-05-05 15:43 ` [PATCH RFC 3/3] RDMA/siw: Require non-zero 6-byte MACs for soft iWARP Chuck Lever
2023-05-05 19:58   ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-05-05 20:03     ` Chuck Lever III
2023-05-06 18:05       ` Chuck Lever III
2023-05-23 19:18     ` Chuck Lever III
2023-05-23 19:44       ` Tom Talpey
2023-05-23 22:50         ` Chuck Lever III
2023-05-31 19:04       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-31 19:11         ` Chuck Lever III
2023-05-31 20:09           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-05-31 20:19             ` Chuck Lever III

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