From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org,
pmatouse@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com, jbottomley@parallels.com,
mchristi@redhat.com, msnitzer@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:17:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EF3C87D.5030608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw+ipBQFTj9SbNjE1KkS+xNpY7RdF1emSf7WrzavyReqA@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/22/2011 02:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I don't *think* anybody does something as crazy as giving actual block
> device ownership to people, but I don't know...
It's quite common and often very necessary to do, to allow a user to
manipulate a device that is not intended to be mounted.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-23 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 18:02 [PATCH 0/3] possible privilege escalation via SG_IO ioctl (CVE-2011-4127) Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 18:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] block: add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 18:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-22 19:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-12-22 19:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-22 20:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-22 22:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-22 23:48 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-12-23 0:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-23 6:26 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-12-23 9:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-23 9:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2011-12-23 14:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-23 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-05 13:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-05 16:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-05 16:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-05 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-05 17:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-05 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-12-26 1:41 ` Daniel Barkalow
2011-12-23 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-12-22 18:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device Paolo Bonzini
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