Re: [PATCH 0/5] RDMA: reg_remote_mr

[Ira Weiny]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:44:48AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
> 
> On 1/29/2019 7:26 AM, Joel Nider wrote:
> > As discussed at LPC'18, there is a need to be able to register a memory
> > region (MR) on behalf of another process. One example is the case of
> > post-copy container migration, in which CRIU is responsible for setting
> > up the migration, but the contents of the memory are from the migrating
> > process. In this case, we want all RDMA READ requests to be served by
> > the address space of the migration process directly (not by CRIU). This
> > patchset implements a new uverbs command which allows an application to
> > register a memory region in the address space of another process.
> 
> Hey Joel,
> 
> Dumb question:
> 
> Doesn't this open a security hole by allowing any process to register
> memory in any other process?

I agree, Changing all MR to use FOLL_REMOTE seems wrong.

Ira

> 
> Steve.
> 
>