linux-kernel - Re: Broken ioctl error returns (was Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices)

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jan 2012 09:04:56 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org,
	pmatouse@...hat.com, agk@...hat.com, jbottomley@...allels.com,
	mchristi@...hat.com, msnitzer@...hat.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: Broken ioctl error returns (was Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: fail SCSI
 passthrough ioctls on partition devices)

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> For a simpler solution, we could keep the old warning message, but change
> the logic from
>
> (.compat_ioctl == NULL || .compat_ioctl() == -ENOIOCTL) && (no generic handler)
>
> to
>
> (.ioctl != NULL && .compat_ioctl == NULL) && (no generic handler).
>
> and then fix the warnings we see by adding appropriate .compat_ioctl
> functions.

So I have no problem with that. What I did have problems with was the
net/socket.c kind of workarounds (which I noticed mainly because they
had that whole EINVAL confusion built into them). Those were why I
decided that the warning has to go.

But if you can re-introduce the warning without workarounds like
those, I have no problem with us reintroducing the warning, even if it
is technically not really kosher and will afaik still print that
warning for the case of a compat-ioctl transform that *would* have
been valid, just not for that particular file descriptor.

But the printout is small and not all that annoying, and explicitly
limited in number, so I guess I don't mind a few false positives if it
really can help find stale translation entries.

                       Linus
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