On 05/02/2012 12:15 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > 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. I don't remember seeing the "right" fix. The messages are really annoying, so lets please get it resubmitted so that we can merge it. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
