Il 02/05/2012 12:10, Jan Kara ha scritto: > Sometimes, warnings about ioctls to partition happen often enough that they > form majority of the warnings in the kernel log and users complain. In some > cases warnings are about ioctls such as SG_IO so it's not good to get rid of > the warnings completely as they can ease debugging of userspace problems > when ioctl is refused. > > Since I have seen warnings from lots of commands, including some proprietary > userspace applications, I don't think disallowing the ioctls for processes > with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will happen in the near future if ever. So lets just > stop warning for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO for which ioctl is allowed. NACK. I would bet that all the warnings you've seen are for ioctl that would have failed anyway with ENOTTY. The right fix has already been posted, we've been carrying it in RHEL for over six months and not a single bug has been seen. Paolo -- 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
