[openib-general] [PATCH] IB_CM: Limit the MRA timeout

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB_CM: Limit the MRA timeout
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > The way I see it, we trust e.g. the SRP target anyway.
> > So I'm not sure there's much value in range-checking everything.
> > The only reason we are touching this is because we see a
> > target reporting an obviously broken service timeout value in MRA -
> > in the hours range.
> 
> The CM is also exposed into userspace, so I think this issue is highlighting a 
> larger potential problem.  I'm a little hesitant to add precedence that we want 
> to reduce large timeout values by adding separate timer constraints exposed 
> through module parameters.

So, let's just have a #define for now? And maybe print a warning so we can
figure out what's wrong ...

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