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Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message
Date 2017-09-21 17:00 +0200
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On 21/09/2017 16:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This looks ok to me, but do we even need to keep the special
> cases above?  Is there anything relying on the safe but not very
> useful ioctls?

No idea, I stuck to the usual "don't break userspace" rule.

Honestly I doubt anything is using most of those ioctls _in general_,
not just on a partition.

Paolo

> Condensing the thing down to:
> 
> int scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bd, unsigned int cmd)
> {
> 	if (bd && bd == bd->bd_contains)
> 		return 0;
> 	if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> 		return 0;
> 	return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> }
> 
> would certainly be nice.

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[PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-09-21 16:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-09-21 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] block: drop "sending ioctl to a partition" message Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-09-21 17:00 +0200

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