Commit 3df6e023 authored by Yishai Hadas's avatar Yishai Hadas Committed by Jason Gunthorpe

IB/mlx5: Enable DEVX on IB

IB has additional protections with SELinux that cannot be extended to the
DEVX domain. SELinux can restrict access to pkeys. The first version of
DEVX blocked IB entirely until this could be understood.

Since DEVX requires CAP_NET_RAW, it supersedes the SELinux restriction and
allows userspace to form arbitrary packets with arbitrary pkeys.

Thus we enable IB for DEVX when CAP_NET_RAW is given.
Signed-off-by: default avatarYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
parent 7e1335a7
......@@ -1759,12 +1759,6 @@ static struct ib_ucontext *mlx5_ib_alloc_ucontext(struct ib_device *ibdev,
#endif
if (req.flags & MLX5_IB_ALLOC_UCTX_DEVX) {
/* Block DEVX on Infiniband as of SELinux */
if (mlx5_ib_port_link_layer(ibdev, 1) != IB_LINK_LAYER_ETHERNET) {
err = -EPERM;
goto out_uars;
}
err = mlx5_ib_devx_create(dev);
if (err < 0)
goto out_uars;
......
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