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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 14:47:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA27E7C.6070802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA27CDB.2080103@teksavvy.com>

Il 03/05/2012 14:40, Mark Lord ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"?  I call it a security fix.
> No, that would plain stupid on both our parts.  :)
> The --write-sector flag is allowed only for non-partitions by hdparm itself.

Excuse my laziness--how does it check?  Most programs I looked at check
at the shape of the file and some are even fooled by "ln -sf /dev/sda1
./sda".

> But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time
> seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise.
> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting
> for the noise message to get reverted.

That's exactly the behavior I hoped to get when I added the warnings.
Or maybe not. :)  What are the messages?  i.e. what ioctl do they
complain about?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02 10:10 [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition Jan Kara
2012-05-02 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 10:37   ` Jens Axboe
2012-05-02 10:54   ` Alan Cox
2012-05-02 11:02     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 11:12       ` Alan Cox
2012-05-02 11:24         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 12:05           ` Alan Cox
2012-05-02 12:23             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 19:38           ` Mark Lord
2012-05-03  7:47             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-03 12:40               ` Mark Lord
2012-05-03 12:47                 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-05-03 17:36                   ` Mark Lord
2012-05-04  6:39                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-04 13:06                       ` Mark Lord
2012-05-04 13:08                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-04 13:11                         ` Mark Lord
2012-05-04 13:24                           ` Mark Lord
2012-05-02 13:51   ` Jan Kara
2012-05-02 13:59     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 15:10       ` Alan Cox
2012-05-02 15:49         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 20:49           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-02 19:49       ` Jan Kara
2012-05-02 21:16         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-15  8:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-15  8:46   ` Jan Kara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-15 10:50 Jan Kara
2012-06-15 10:51 ` Jens Axboe
2012-06-15 13:58   ` Nick Bowler
2012-06-15 14:22     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-15 14:23     ` Jan Kara
2012-06-15 14:31       ` Nick Bowler
2012-06-15 11:00 ` Alan Cox

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