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RDMA/uverbs: Introduce UCAP (User CAPabilities) API Implement a new User CAPabilities (UCAP) API to provide fine-grained control over specific firmware features. This approach offers more granular capabilities than the existing Linux capabilities, which may be too generic for certain FW features. This mechanism represents each capability as a character device with root read-write access. Root processes can grant users special privileges by allowing access to these character devices (e.g., using chown). UCAP character devices are located in /dev/infiniband and the class path is /sys/class/infiniband_ucaps. Signed-off-by: Chiara Meiohas <cmeiohas@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5a1379187cd21178e8554afc81a3c941f21af22f.1741261611.git.leon@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> 2025-03-06 13:51:26 +02:00