linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: ioctl return value fix

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Message-ID: <4A54F77B.80008@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:46:03 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: ioctl return value fix

On 07/08/2009 09:12 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:43:10PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:59:41 am Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>      
>>> Block driver ioctl methods must return ENOTTY and not -ENOIOCTLCMD if
>>> they expect the block layer to handle generic ioctls.
>>>
>>> This triggered a BLKROSET failure in xfsqa #200.
>>>        
>> Applied.
>>      
>
> Can you send on this fix to Linus?  It fixes a regression introduced in
> Linux 2.6.30.
>
>    

It should set the Cc: stable@...nel.org marker then.

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