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| author | Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> | 2026-07-16 15:23:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> | 2026-07-26 03:11:00 -0400 |
| commit | bca2c9d781bccb5103a1b22de0e3fc103fa5131a (patch) | |
| tree | 7ec70b7e041f8ff4ee7f66c820e3609ef8be998b /drivers | |
| parent | c4ef67e5aa3e08637dcd6c3fd325c0938a428058 (diff) | |
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RDMA/cma: Document that CM configfs cannot be net namespace scoped
Document the rdma_cm configfs limitation: configfs is global, so same-named
RDMA devices in different net namespaces cannot both be represented there.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260716132316.1495242-10-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c index 891e52afb8f4..c389d4e37b6b 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma_configfs.c @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ static struct cma_dev_port_group *to_dev_port_group(struct config_item *item) return container_of(group, struct cma_dev_port_group, group); } +/* + * configfs is not net namespace aware, so a name shared by devices in + * different namespaces resolves to the first match here. + */ static bool filter_by_name(struct ib_device *ib_dev, void *cookie) { return !strcmp(dev_name(&ib_dev->dev), cookie); |