Re: [PATCH rdma-next 3/7] RDMA/core: Remove protection from wrong in-kernel API usage

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 02:46:14 EST


On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 09:13:02AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The ib_create_named_qp() is kernel verb that is not used for user
> supplied attributes. In such case, it is ULP responsibility to provide
> valid QP attributes.
>
> In-kernel API shouldn't check it, exactly like other functions that
> don't check device capabilities.

Hmm. These still looks like useful debugging checks.