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Message-ID: <4FA27E7C.6070802@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 14:47:56 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> To: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> CC: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition Il 03/05/2012 14:40, Mark Lord ha scritto: >> > >> > Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"? I call it a security fix. > No, that would plain stupid on both our parts. :) > The --write-sector flag is allowed only for non-partitions by hdparm itself. Excuse my laziness--how does it check? Most programs I looked at check at the shape of the file and some are even fooled by "ln -sf /dev/sda1 ./sda". > But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time > seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise. > Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting > for the noise message to get reverted. That's exactly the behavior I hoped to get when I added the warnings. Or maybe not. :) What are the messages? i.e. what ioctl do they complain about? Paolo -- 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/
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