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Bug 1684605 - QEDE not working as non-privileged user on RHEL8
Summary: QEDE not working as non-privileged user on RHEL8
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openvswitch2.11
Version: FDP 19.03
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kevin Traynor
QA Contact: Jean-Tsung Hsiao
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-03-01 15:57 UTC by Kevin Traynor
Modified: 2019-09-10 19:09 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-8.el8fdn.src.rpm
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Last Closed: 2019-06-05 14:55:04 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:1386 0 None None None 2019-06-05 14:55:06 UTC

Description Kevin Traynor 2019-03-01 15:57:59 UTC 
Qede pmd driver does not report the RTE_PCI_DRV_IOVA_AS_VA flag.

This means that access to /proc/self/pagemap is needed, however since Linux 4.x it is not allowed to non-root users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges which openvswitch currently does not have.

TBC, this may be able to fixed by adding the flag to the Qede pmd similar to what is done in http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/50274/
Comment 1 Kevin Traynor 2019-03-01 16:09:46 UTC 
Rasesh, can you confirm that it is ok for Qede pmd to report this flag? If so, I can send a patch for it.
Comment 3 Rasesh Mody 2019-03-07 01:05:47 UTC 
(In reply to Kevin Traynor from comment #1)
> Rasesh, can you confirm that it is ok for Qede pmd to report this flag? If
> so, I can send a patch for it.

Kevin, it is ok for QEDE PMD to report this flag, please send a patch with the change.
Comment 4 Kevin Traynor 2019-03-07 18:47:19 UTC 
Checked initialisation on RHEL8 with test openvswitch2.11 rpm and sent patch upstream http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/50974/
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2019-06-05 14:55:04 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:1386
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