Commit 19a0f7e3 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by David S. Miller

net/smc: Add warning about remote memory exposure

The driver explicitly bypasses APIs to register all memory once a
connection is made, and thus allows remote access to memory.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarUrsula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 263eec9b
...@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ config SMC ...@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ config SMC
The Linux implementation of the SMC-R solution is designed as The Linux implementation of the SMC-R solution is designed as
a separate socket family SMC. a separate socket family SMC.
Warning: SMC will expose all memory for remote reads and writes
once a connection is established. Don't enable this option except
for tightly controlled lab environment.
Select this option if you want to run SMC socket applications Select this option if you want to run SMC socket applications
config SMC_DIAG config SMC_DIAG
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