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

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:14:12 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:	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 02/05/2012 12:10, Jan Kara ha scritto:
> Sometimes, warnings about ioctls to partition happen often enough that they
> form majority of the warnings in the kernel log and users complain. In some
> cases warnings are about ioctls such as SG_IO so it's not good to get rid of
> the warnings completely as they can ease debugging of userspace problems
> when ioctl is refused.
> 
> Since I have seen warnings from lots of commands, including some proprietary
> userspace applications, I don't think disallowing the ioctls for processes
> with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will happen in the near future if ever. So lets just
> stop warning for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO for which ioctl is allowed.
> 
> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> CC: James Bottomley <JBottomley@...allels.com>
> CC: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> ---
>  block/scsi_ioctl.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> index 260fa80..9a87daa 100644
> --- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> +++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
> @@ -721,11 +721,14 @@ int scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bd, unsigned int cmd)
>  		break;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	/* In particular, rule out all resets and host-specific ioctls.  */
>  	printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING
>  			   "%s: sending ioctl %x to a partition!\n", current->comm, cmd);
>  
> -	return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> +	return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_verify_blk_ioctl);
>  
> 

Ping?

Paolo

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