From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:51:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDB13B1.8040100@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1339757457-15646-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
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.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-15 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-15 10:50 [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition Jan Kara
2012-06-15 10:51 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-02 10:10 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
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
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