[openib-general] [PATCH] ib_cm: fix REJ due to invalid GID

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Jul 20 02:25:06 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ib_cm: fix REJ due to invalid GID
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Should we be worried that this also sends IB_CM_REJ_INVALID_GID if
> > find_cached_pkey fails?
> 
> I'm not sure that an invalid pkey necessarily maps better to any other reject 
> code...

It is not the syndrom that I'm worried about, but rather the fact that
we are giving out GID information.
Is this a security issue? Should we worry about that?

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MST




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