RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for anchor create
authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:58:06 +0000 (21:58 +0300)
committerLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Tue, 1 Jul 2025 09:21:39 +0000 (05:21 -0400)
commit14957e8125e767bfd40a3ac61b1d6b8e62ee0a98
tree607780ac43d87c93a9fda88e3823d55dd9b22152
parent95a89ec304c38f7447cdbf271f2d1cbad4c3bf81
RDMA/mlx5: Check CAP_NET_RAW in user namespace for anchor 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 anchor.

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: 0c6ab0ca9a66 ("RDMA/mlx5: Expose steering anchor to userspace")
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/c2376ca75e7658e2cbd1f619cf28fbe98c906419.1750963874.git.leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/fs.c