Re: [PATCH] RDMA/mlx5: return the EFAULT per ibv_advise_mr(3)

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 08:56:54PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 01:25:07PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 05:20:50PM +0800, Li Zhijian wrote:
> > > ibv_advise_mr(3) says:
> > > EFAULT In one of the following: o When the range requested is out of the  MR  bounds,
> > >        or  when  parts of it are not part of the process address space. o One of the
> > >        lkeys provided in the scatter gather list is invalid or with wrong write access
> > > 
> > > Actually get_prefetchable_mr() will return NULL if it see above conditions
> > 
> > No, get_prefetchable_mr() returns NULL if the mkey is invalid
> 
> And what is this?
>   1701 static struct mlx5_ib_mr *                         
>   1702 get_prefetchable_mr(struct ib_pd *pd, enum ib_uverbs_advise_mr_advice advice,
>   1703                     u32 lkey)
> 
> ...
> 
>   1721         /* prefetch with write-access must be supported by the MR */
>   1722         if (advice == IB_UVERBS_ADVISE_MR_ADVICE_PREFETCH_WRITE &&
>   1723             !mr->umem->writable) {
>   1724                 mr = NULL;
>   1725                 goto end;
>   1726         }

I would say that is an invalid mkey

Jason