From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Bowler Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:58:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20120615135825.GA12847@elliptictech.com> References: <1339757457-15646-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <4FDB13B1.8040100@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx.scalarmail.ca ([98.158.95.75]:47747 "EHLO ironport-01.sms.scalar.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755043Ab2FOOII (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:08:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FDB13B1.8040100@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Jan Kara , LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , James Bottomley On 2012-06-15 12:51 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 06/15/2012 12:50 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > > Sometimes, warnings about ioctls to partition happen often enough that they > > form majority of the warnings in the kernel log and users complain. In some > > cases warnings are about ioctls such as SG_IO so it's not good to get rid of > > the warnings completely as they can ease debugging of userspace problems > > when ioctl is refused. > > > > Since I have seen warnings from lots of commands, including some proprietary > > userspace applications, I don't think disallowing the ioctls for processes > > with CAP_SYS_RAWIO will happen in the near future if ever. So lets just > > stop warning for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO for which ioctl is allowed. > > Agree, merged, finally. Hurray! This should be -stable material as well, as >=3.2.y kernel versions are affected (I think 3.0.y is OK?). Thanks, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)