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authorYishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>2019-01-22 08:29:56 +0200
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-01-29 13:32:43 -0700
commit6bf8f22aea0ddd93af822aed8afeeee4acdf7694 (patch)
treec1f635f6de5b181c620977455db5371b5a496297 /drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
parentnet/mlx5: Add pci AtomicOps request (diff)
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IB/mlx5: Introduce MLX5_IB_OBJECT_DEVX_ASYNC_CMD_FD
Introduce MLX5_IB_OBJECT_DEVX_ASYNC_CMD_FD and its initial implementation. This object is from type class FD and will be used to read DEVX async commands completion. The core layer should allow the driver to set object from type FD in a safe mode, this option was added with a matching comment in place. Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
index 9ae08e4b78a3..7a987acf0c0b 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_uapi.c
@@ -188,13 +188,18 @@ static int uapi_merge_obj_tree(struct uverbs_api *uapi,
obj_elm->type_attrs = obj->type_attrs;
obj_elm->type_class = obj->type_attrs->type_class;
/*
- * Today drivers are only permitted to use idr_class
- * types. They cannot use FD types because we currently have
- * no way to revoke the fops pointer after device
- * disassociation.
+ * Today drivers are only permitted to use idr_class and
+ * fd_class types. We can revoke the IDR types during
+ * disassociation, and the FD types require the driver to use
+ * struct file_operations.owner to prevent the driver module
+ * code from unloading while the file is open. This provides
+ * enough safety that uverbs_close_fd() will continue to work.
+ * Drivers using FD are responsible to handle disassociation of
+ * the device on their own.
*/
if (WARN_ON(is_driver &&
- obj->type_attrs->type_class != &uverbs_idr_class))
+ obj->type_attrs->type_class != &uverbs_idr_class &&
+ obj->type_attrs->type_class != &uverbs_fd_class))
return -EINVAL;
}