From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [06/07] [PATCH] SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc.
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:26:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050427182610.GA4400@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114619928.18809.118.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 05:38:49PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2005-04-27 at 18:16, Greg KH wrote:
> > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>
> This patch is just wrong on so many different levels its hard to know
> where to begin.
But that is what is now in mainline, right? If so, all of these
questions still pertain to the current tree...
> 1. The auth for arbitary commands is CAP_SYS_RAWIO
> 2. "The SCSI command permissions were discussed widely on the linux
> lists but this did not result in any useful refinement of the
> permissions." - this is false. The process was refined, a table setup
> was added and debugged. Someone even wrote an fs for managing it that is
> not yet merged. Perhaps the patch author would care to re-read the
> archives and submit a new patch if one is even needed
> 3. Pleas explain *what* the specific consistency problems are
>
> And then please fix the same mess in 12rc.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-27 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20050427171446.GA3195@kroah.com>
2005-04-27 17:16 ` [06/07] [PATCH] SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc Greg KH
2005-04-27 16:38 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-27 18:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-27 17:51 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-28 5:43 ` Kai Makisara
2005-04-28 12:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-28 13:21 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29 4:20 ` Greg KH
2005-04-29 20:16 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29 20:38 ` Greg KH
2005-04-30 5:52 ` Kai Makisara
2005-04-30 5:10 ` Greg KH
2005-04-30 8:10 ` Kai Makisara
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