[PATCH rdma-next 15/15] RDMA/mlx5: Enforce relaxed ordering when HW requires it

Michael Gur <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:29:29 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Add relaxed ordering validation (relaxed or unordered) to enforce no
strong ordered mkeys are created when the HW disallows it.
Reject MR registrations that do not request IB_ACCESS_RELAXED_ORDERING
or IB_ACCESS_UNORDERED.

Invoke the validator from all user-facing MR registration paths,
including the Device Memory path (mlx5_ib_reg_dm_mr).

Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Gur <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
index 31879c0ecfb3..5a7bec0d7edd 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ static void set_mkc_access_pd_addr_fields(void *mkc, int acc, u64 start_addr,
 	MLX5_SET64(mkc, mkc, start_addr, start_addr);
 }
 
+static int validate_ordering_access(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, int acc)
+{
+	/* If HW disallows Strong Ordered writes, RO/UNORDERED must be set */
+	if (MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev->mdev, mkc_order_write_after_write_ro_only)) {
+		if (!(acc & (IB_ACCESS_RELAXED_ORDERING | IB_ACCESS_UNORDERED)))
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static void assign_mkey_variant(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, u32 *mkey, u32 *in)
 {
 	u8 key = atomic_inc_return(&dev->mkey_var);
@@ -679,8 +689,13 @@ struct ib_mr *mlx5_ib_reg_dm_mr(struct ib_pd *pd, struct ib_dm *dm,
 {
 	struct mlx5_ib_dm *mdm = to_mdm(dm);
 	struct mlx5_core_dev *dev = to_mdev(dm->device)->mdev;
+	struct mlx5_ib_dev *ib_dev = to_mdev(dm->device);
 	u64 start_addr = mdm->dev_addr + attr->offset;
-	int mode;
+	int mode, err;
+
+	err = validate_ordering_access(ib_dev, attr->access_flags);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 
 	switch (mdm->type) {
 	case MLX5_IB_UAPI_DM_TYPE_MEMIC:
@@ -843,6 +858,10 @@ struct ib_mr *mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr(struct ib_pd *pd, u64 start, u64 length,
 	mlx5_ib_dbg(dev, "start 0x%llx, iova 0x%llx, length 0x%llx, access_flags 0x%x\n",
 		    start, iova, length, access_flags);
 
+	err = validate_ordering_access(dev, access_flags);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+
 	err = mlx5r_umr_resource_init(dev);
 	if (err)
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
@@ -1034,6 +1053,10 @@ struct ib_mr *mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr_dmabuf(struct ib_pd *pd, u64 offset,
 		    "offset 0x%llx, virt_addr 0x%llx, length 0x%llx, fd %d, access_flags 0x%x, mlx5_access_flags 0x%x\n",
 		    offset, virt_addr, length, fd, access_flags, mlx5_access_flags);
 
+	err = validate_ordering_access(dev, access_flags);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+
 	/* dmabuf requires xlt update via umr to work. */
 	if (!mlx5r_umr_can_load_pas(dev, length))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
@@ -1167,6 +1190,10 @@ struct ib_mr *mlx5_ib_rereg_user_mr(struct ib_mr *ib_mr, int flags, u64 start,
 	if (!(flags & IB_MR_REREG_PD))
 		new_pd = ib_mr->pd;
 
+	err = validate_ordering_access(dev, new_access_flags);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+
 	if (mr->is_odp_implicit && !(flags & IB_MR_REREG_TRANS)) {
 		if (!(new_access_flags & IB_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND))
 			return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
-- 
2.52.0