From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:45:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] NVMe: Do not take nsid while a passthrough IO command is being issued via a block device file descriptor In-Reply-To: References: <1421886503-25276-1-git-send-email-yan@purestorage.com> Message-ID: <20150122084517.GA2093@infradead.org> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015@12:47:24AM +0000, Keith Busch wrote: > The IOCTL's purpose was to let someone submit completely arbitrary > commands on IO queues. This technically shouldn't even need a namespace > handle, but we don't have a request_queue associated to IO queues without > one like the admin queue has. In fact, we ought to fix that so we can > issue IO commands without namespaces. Honestly, this sounds like a horrible idea. As namespaces aren't really any different from SCSI LUNs they should only be accessible through the device associated with the namespaces, and admin commands should only be allowed through the character device (if at all). For these security and usability reasons we did get rid of the SG_FLAG_LUN_INHIBIT flag in the SCSI passthrough interface, which allowed for similar horrible things in the distant past.