[openib-general] [PATCH] libibsa: userspace SA query and multicast support

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Aug 23 14:32:59 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] libibsa: userspace SA query and multicast support
> 
> What's the plan for how this would be used?  We can't let unprivileged
> userspace processes talk to the SA, because they could cause problems
> like deleting someone else's multicast group membership.  And I don't
> think we want to try to do some elaborate filtering in the kernel, do we?

Yea I had the same question. Shouldn't interface expose
just the specific queries that we need?

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MST




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