From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] 2.6.8: CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctls failing as non-root on ide scsi drives
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 15:23:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041004142341.GD20930@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6uu0tad24s.fsf@zork.zork.net>
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 04 2004, Sean Neakums wrote:
> >> CDROM_SEND_PACKET calls down to sg_io, which calls verify_command,
> >> which will not permit anyone but root to use any unrecognised
> >> commands. GET CONFIGURATION does not seems to be one of those
> >> recognised. This check for unrecognised commands is a fairly recent
> >> addition, IIRC.
> >
> > 2.6.8 didn't have any command granularity, you must be root to issue any
> > comand there.
>
> I was looking at 2.6.8.1 when I wrote the above, although it's
> possible my eye skipped over something.
ah yes now i have found the issue i have a confession to make,
i'm actually running 2.6.8.1-selinux1.
i didn't want to mention that in case it was selinux that was the
problem :)
l.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-04 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-04 13:09 [bug] 2.6.8: CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctls failing as non-root on ide scsi drives Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-04 12:59 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-04 14:38 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-10-04 13:30 ` Sean Neakums
2004-10-04 13:36 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-04 13:49 ` Sean Neakums
2004-10-04 13:55 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-04 14:23 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-10-04 14:20 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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