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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [06/07] [PATCH] SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc.
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:10:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050430051030.GA10005@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504300849350.21122@kai.makisara.local>

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:52:31AM +0300, Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:16:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Gwe, 2005-04-29 at 05:20, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > Ok thats the bit I needed to know
> > > > 
> > > > So, do you still object to this patch being accepted?
> > > 
> > > Switched to CAP_SYS_RAWIO I don't. Its the wrong answer long term I
> > > suspect but its definitely a good answer for now.
> > 
> > Switch it in both capable() calls in the patch?  Kai, is this acceptable
> > to you also?
> > 
> Yes. Using CAP_SYS_ADMIN here was wrong.

Ok, care to send a new patch that I can use for the next -stable kernel
release?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-30  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-27 17:14 [00/07] -stable review Greg KH
2005-04-27 17:15 ` [01/07] uml: add nfsd syscall when nfsd is modular Greg KH
2005-04-27 16:33   ` Alan Cox
2005-04-27 17:46     ` Chris Wright
2005-04-27 17:23       ` Alan Cox
2005-04-27 18:47         ` Chris Wright
2005-04-29  4:16           ` Greg KH
2005-04-27 17:16 ` [02/07] [fix Bug 4395] modprobe bttv freezes the computer Greg KH
2005-04-27 17:16 ` [03/07] I2C: Fix incorrect sysfs file permissions in it87 and via686a drivers Greg KH
2005-04-27 19:41   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-27 19:49     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-28  5:47   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-04-27 17:16 ` [04/07] partitions/msdos.c fix Greg KH
2005-04-27 20:34   ` Andries Brouwer
2005-04-27 20:49     ` Erik Tews
2005-04-27 22:08       ` Andries Brouwer
2005-04-27 20:35   ` Pavel Machek
2005-04-27 17:16 ` [05/07] [PATCH] Fix reproducible SMP crash in security/keys/key.c Greg KH
2005-04-27 17:16 ` [06/07] [PATCH] SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc Greg KH
2005-04-27 16:38   ` Alan Cox
2005-04-27 18:26     ` Greg KH
2005-04-27 17:51       ` Alan Cox
2005-04-28  5:43     ` Kai Makisara
2005-04-28 12:49       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-28 13:21       ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29  4:20         ` Greg KH
2005-04-29 20:16           ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29 20:38             ` Greg KH
2005-04-30  5:52               ` Kai Makisara
2005-04-30  5:10                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-30  8:10                   ` Kai Makisara
2005-04-27 17:17 ` [07/07] uml: quick fix syscall table Greg KH
2005-04-27 18:26 ` [00/07] -stable review Chris Wright
2005-04-27 18:31 ` [08/07] sparc64: Fix copy_siginfo_to_user32() Chris Wright
2005-04-27 18:35 ` [09/07] sparc64: use message queue compat syscalls Chris Wright
2005-04-27 18:38 ` [10/07] sparc: Fix PTRACE_CONT bogosity Chris Wright
2005-04-27 17:53   ` Alan Cox
2005-04-28  0:13 ` [00/07] -stable review Nick Piggin
2005-04-28  1:33   ` Chris Wright
2005-04-28  1:43     ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-29  4:14       ` Rules about the -stable tree Greg KH
2005-04-28  1:51     ` [00/07] -stable review Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-28  1:51       ` Nick Piggin
2005-04-28  1:54       ` Justin M. Forbes
2005-04-28  6:49 ` Gregor Jasny
2005-04-28  6:59   ` [stable] " Greg KH

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