linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:51:09 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition
 devices

On 01/15/2012 12:43 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Anyway, with the changes to print out warnings and still allow it for
> root, this all looked safe and nice, so they are in my tree now. I
> only noticed after applying them that you hadn't marked them with 'cc:
> stable@...nel.org', so we should probably point Greg at them. They are
> commits
>
>    577ebb374c78 block: add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl
>    0bfc96cb7722 block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
>    ec8013beddd7 dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the
> underlying device
>
> in my tree now.

I'll tweak them myself for stable based on what you committed, so that 
they do not require your ENOTTY/ENOIOCTLCMD change (i.e. with the uglier 
v1 implementation).

Thanks very much.

Paolo
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