On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 04:19:26PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:56:10PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 01/18/2012 05:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >> There is harm. You'll be blacklisting also the standard block device > > >> ioctls, and those won't work on 32-on-64 anymore. A system with 32-bit > > >> userland will likely not boot anymore. > > > > > >It does (yes, I tested that myself now). The standard block device > > >ioctls are handled without calling the driver's compat_ioctl. > > > > What about the non-compat path when done by non-root? > > > > * Does BLKROSET still return EACCES when run by non-root and without > > CAP_SYS_ADMIN? I suspect your patch is changing it to EINVAL. > > > > * Does BLKFLSBUF work when run by non-root but with CAP_SYS_ADMIN? > > I'm confused here as well. > > Can someone please send me the proper patch that I need to apply to > resolve this issue on the 2.6.32.y kernel? Ok, I think I've queued up the correct ones, please let me know if I messed something up. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
