linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition

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Message-ID: <4FA2C205.3030801@teksavvy.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 May 2012 13:36:05 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.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

On 12-05-03 08:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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?

I don't know if there's a feasible fool-proof method or not.
But what hdparm does is look at the sector offset of the device.
Partitions normally have a non-zero offset.

>> 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?

As above:

>> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting
>> for the noise message to get reverted.
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