IB/mlx5: Enable DEVX on IB
authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:45:21 +0000 (21:45 +0300)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:01:33 +0000 (13:01 -0600)
commit3df6e0234aebc55888069997239fe2847d4cf152
tree37562fb5fa578afa25fe922594035f47fa64bc5d
parent7e1335a736969a8b5169629e6569779d42fcda2f
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: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c