From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267272AbUHSTNH (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:13:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267287AbUHSTNH (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:13:07 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:12677 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267272AbUHSTNE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:13:04 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: cdrecord: avoiding scsi device numbering for ide devices From: Alan Cox To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Frank Steiner , Joerg Schilling , kernel@wildsau.enemy.org, diablod3@gmail.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200408191800.56581.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> References: <200408041233.i74CX93f009939@wildsau.enemy.org> <4124BA10.6060602@bio.ifi.lmu.de> <1092925942.28353.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200408191800.56581.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1092938773.28350.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:06:14 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 17:00, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > As a security fix it was sufficiently important that it had to be done. > > IMO work-rounding this in kernel is a bad idea and could break a lot of > existing apps (some you even don't know about). Much better way to deal with > this is to create library for handling I/O commands submission and gradually > teach user-space apps to use it. And what do you do the day someone posts "lock IDE drive with random password as any user" to bugtraq ?