Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: block: Handle cases where devices come online read-only

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Jeremy,

> I noticed drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c calls set_disk_ro() to set the
> policy, where-as the policy is set with set_device_ro() in the generic
> ioctl.

There's a subtle distinction here:

 - set_disk_ro() sets the policy for a whole disk

 - set_device_ro() sets the policy for a block_device (typically
   partition)

> It's not setting the policy to DISK_POLICY_USER_WRITE_PROTECT so I
> think it would only be a problem if the user set it to 2 instead of 1
> assuming any truthy value is acceptable. Then the user wouldn't be
> able to mark the disk as writable again since this would be
> true. Perhaps it's a somewhat far-fetched scenario.

OK, I missed that particular entry point. Will fix.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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