Hi folks, cdrecord wants to whack the CD drive with a SCSI RESET ... So far SCSI RESET can be done at 4 levels (target, device, bus, host) and all 4 are checked for CAP_SYS_ADMIN / CAP_SYS_RAWIO. As the cdrecord author wants special permissions for cdrecord, readcd , cdda2wav to allow it to send SCSI RESET commands I was wondering if relaxing the permission is a potential idea? This would allow SCSI reset on target/device if a local user gets regular access to a SCSI device (via udev acls etc.) (I know that the actual reset code will fall back into the chain target -> device -> bus -> host resetting if one fails.) Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx> Ciao, Marcus --- drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c index d9564fb..770720e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c @@ -306,22 +306,26 @@ int scsi_nonblockable_ioctl(struct scsi_device *sdev, int cmd, return 0; switch (val) { case SG_SCSI_RESET_DEVICE: + /* allowed if you can send scsi commands to the device */ val = SCSI_TRY_RESET_DEVICE; break; case SG_SCSI_RESET_TARGET: + /* allowed if you can send scsi commands to the device */ val = SCSI_TRY_RESET_TARGET; break; case SG_SCSI_RESET_BUS: + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) + return -EACCES; val = SCSI_TRY_RESET_BUS; break; case SG_SCSI_RESET_HOST: + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) + return -EACCES; val = SCSI_TRY_RESET_HOST; break; default: return -EINVAL; } - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) - return -EACCES; return (scsi_reset_provider(sdev, val) == SUCCESS) ? 0 : -EIO; } -- 1.8.1.4 -- 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