linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] cdrom drive doesn't detect removal

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20100915132731.GA20558@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:27:31 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] cdrom drive doesn't detect removal

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Kay Sievers wrote:
> It's only the polling that should be able to trigger these events for
> the device. the device itself can't report any changes to the host,
> unless you have a SATA drive which can send AN (async notification)
> events. But we disabled the AN support recently, because it was
> running in loops on some boxes.

Is it so widespread or extremely difficult to detect, that it justifies
breaking AN for all users?

Anyway, if userspace thinks AN is available, it won't pool or touch
/dev/sr*, which would explain the problem (but one still would have to find
the root cause: why userspace thinks it doesn't need to pool?).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/