Bug#656899: grub-probe: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! (Re: confirm ioctl issue on kernel 3.2 from squeeze backports)
tags 656899 + patch
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Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> Commit 6d9359280753d2955f86d6411047516a9431eb51 on linux-next [1]
So, not in linus's tree but pretty close. Thanks for the pointer.
For reference:
commit 6d9359280753
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Fri Jun 15 12:52:46 2012 +0200
scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
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.
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CC: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
index 260fa80ef575..9a87daa6f4fb 100644
--- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -721,11 +721,14 @@ int scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bd, unsigned int cmd)
break;
}
+ if (capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
+ return 0;
+
/* In particular, rule out all resets and host-specific ioctls. */
printk_ratelimited(KERN_WARNING
"%s: sending ioctl %x to a partition!\n", current->comm, cmd);
- return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+ return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_verify_blk_ioctl);
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