On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:50:57 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
