[openib-general] mthca FMR correctness (and memory windows)
    Roland Dreier 
    rdreier at cisco.com
       
    Mon Mar 20 17:01:43 PST 2006
    
    
  
    Thomas> If I can snoop or guess rkeys (not a huge challenge with
    Thomas> 32 bits), and if I can use them on an arbitrary queuepair,
    Thomas> then I can handily peek and poke at memory that does not
    Thomas> belong to me.
    Thomas> For this reason, iWARP requires its steering tags to be
    Thomas> scoped to a single connection. This leverages the IP
    Thomas> security model and provides correctness.
    Thomas> It is true that IB implementations generally don't do
    Thomas> this. They should.
Isn't this what IB protection domains solve?
 - R.
    
    
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