From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753771Ab2GWBow (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:44:52 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54513 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753660Ab2GWBny (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:43:54 -0400 Message-Id: <20120723010654.873125604@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:07:13 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Jan Kara , Paolo Bonzini , James Bottomley , Jens Axboe Subject: [ 022/108] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition In-Reply-To: <20120723010651.408577075@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara commit 6d9359280753d2955f86d6411047516a9431eb51 upstream. 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 CC: James Bottomley CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe [bwh: Backported to 3.2: use ENOTTY, not ENOIOCTLCMD] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- block/scsi_ioctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 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 : -ENOTTY; + return -ENOTTY; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(scsi_verify_blk_ioctl);