On 2012-06-15 12:51 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 06/15/2012 12:50 PM, Jan Kara 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. > > Agree, merged, finally. Hurray! This should be -stable material as well, as >=3.2.y kernel versions are affected (I think 3.0.y is OK?). Thanks, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- 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
