Strange, my utilities and packages like smartmontools have been sending them through for at least three years. I presume this patch allows non-root users to send these commands. Might there be security implications if ATA WRITE commands are sent through? Non-root users would still need permissions on the sg device node (e.g. /dev/sg1). Doug Gilbert Gwendal Grignou wrote:
We can already send ATA specific commands using /dev/sd device files. This patch allow to use /dev/sg device files as well. Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/scsi_ioctl.c | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c index 82a0ca2..93fa53e 100644 --- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c +++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c @@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ void blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults(struct blk_cmd_filter *filter) __set_bit(GPCMD_LOAD_UNLOAD, filter->write_ok); __set_bit(GPCMD_SET_STREAMING, filter->write_ok); __set_bit(GPCMD_SET_READ_AHEAD, filter->write_ok); + + /* ATA Passthrough */ + __set_bit(ATA_12, filter->read_ok); + __set_bit(ATA_12, filter->write_ok); + __set_bit(ATA_16, filter->read_ok); + __set_bit(ATA_16, filter->write_ok); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults);
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