[PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/mlx4: Restrict external umem for CQ when copy_to_user() is used
From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Wed Mar 25 2026 - 14:24:25 EST
From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
When the mlx4 firmware reports the MLX4_DEV_CAP_FLAG2_SW_CQ_INIT capability,
libmlx4 from the rdma-core package expects the driver to initialize memory
at the address provided in the buf_addr parameter of ucmd.
This behavior cannot be supported by any external umem implementation, so
restrict it accordingly.
Fixes: f45f195af521 ("RDMA/mlx4: Introduce a modern CQ creation interface")
Reported-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cq.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cq.c
index b391883aa4004..6fef3f1724eb9 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/cq.c
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ int mlx4_ib_create_user_cq(struct ib_cq *ibcq,
goto err_cq;
}
+ if (ibcq->umem &&
+ (dev->dev->caps.flags2 & MLX4_DEV_CAP_FLAG2_SW_CQ_INIT))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
buf_addr = (void *)(unsigned long)ucmd.buf_addr;
if (!ibcq->umem)
---
base-commit: 05eec2a60c7909acfbe5b6c5fbb64790d5a3ff1c
change-id: 20260325-fix-mlx4-external-umem-9e8214de61f0
Best regards,
--
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>