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. CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> CC: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- block/scsi_ioctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) Resending rebased on 3.5-rc2 with and Ack from Paolo. diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c index 260fa80..9a87daa 100644 --- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c +++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c @@ -721,11 +721,14 @@ int scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bd, unsigned int cmd) break; } + if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) + return 0; + /* In particular, rule out all resets and host-specific ioctls. */ printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING "%s: sending ioctl %x to a partition!\n", current->comm, cmd); - return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -ENOIOCTLCMD; + return -ENOIOCTLCMD; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_verify_blk_ioctl); -- 1.7.1 -- 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
