On 02/03/2017 11:06 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
.. at least for unprivilegued users. Before we called into the SCSI
ioctl code to allow excemptions for a few SCSI passthrough ioctls,
but this is pretty unsafe and except for this call dm knows nothing
about SCSI ioctls. As SCSI the SCSI ioctl code is made optionally
^~ duped SCSI or should it
read "as in SCSI the SCSI ioctl code [...]"
now we really don't want to drag it in for DM, and the exception is
not very useful anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Note: this should go into the block tree, as that's where
scsi_verify_blk_ioctl becomes optional.
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Rest looks OK to me,
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
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