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RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for devx create
authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:58:10 +0000 (21:58 +0300)
committerLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Wed, 2 Jul 2025 09:11:44 +0000 (05:11 -0400)
commitbd82467f17e0940c6f6a5396278cda586c9cb6fd
tree8ec7cc0de30cfc15da04ce58d528f788857ec1e7
parent4b527c23c92dcc211446a8edb305d9514a8dae05
RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for devx create

Currently, the capability check is done in the default
init_user_ns user namespace. When a process runs in a
non default user namespace, such check fails. Due to this
when a process is running using Podman, it fails to create
the devx object.

Since the RDMA device is a resource within a network namespace,
use the network namespace associated with the RDMA device to
determine its owning user namespace.

Fixes: a8b92ca1b0e5 ("IB/mlx5: Introduce DEVX")
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/36ee87e92defd81410c6a2b33f9d6c0d6dcfd64c.1750963874.git.leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/devx.c