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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:52:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F54D314.9060504@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F54B997.3060207@crc.id.au>

On 05/03/2012 13:03, Steven Haigh wrote:
> I've noticed that recently I've managed to get a ton of messages like
> this at boot:
>
> mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition!
> mdadm: sending ioctl 800c0910 to a partition!

It's probably harmless.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2012/01/msg01105.html says "This 
warning was introduced as part of the fix for CVE-2011-4127"

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783955#c4 says "Actually, 
the warning seems a false positive to me"

Cheers,

John.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-05 13:03 mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! Steven Haigh
2012-03-05 14:52 ` John Robinson [this message]
2012-03-05 18:53   ` Steven Haigh
2012-03-05 20:01     ` NeilBrown
2012-03-06  2:00       ` Steven Haigh
2012-03-06  2:27         ` NeilBrown
2012-03-06  2:38           ` Steven Haigh
2012-03-06  5:29           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-03-08  0:04             ` NeilBrown
2012-03-08 10:54               ` Jan Kara

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