Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 03:43:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > +       case CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY:
> > +               /* Keep this until we remove the printk below.  udev sends it
> > +                * and we do not want to spam dmesg about it.   CD-ROMs do
> > +                * not have partitions, so we get here only for disks.
> > +                */
> > +               return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> 
> Looks like CDROMMULTISESSION is another of these.
> 
> I get two of these:
> 
>    mount: sending ioctl 5310 to a partition!
> 
> with Fedora 14 whenever a USB stick is inserted (I changed your patch
> to also print the name of the program). Let's see if anything else
> pops up.
> 
> Anyway, with the changes to print out warnings and still allow it for
> root, this all looked safe and nice, so they are in my tree now. I
> only noticed after applying them that you hadn't marked them with 'cc:
> stable@kernel.org', so we should probably point Greg at them. They are
> commits
> 
>   577ebb374c78 block: add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl
>   0bfc96cb7722 block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
>   ec8013beddd7 dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the
> underlying device
> 
> in my tree now.

Thanks, I've queued them all up for the 3.2 and 3.0-stable trees.

greg k-h