Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161154AbXALWym (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:54:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161155AbXALWym (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:54:42 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57108 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161154AbXALWyl (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:54:41 -0500 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Steven Fernandez , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0 X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? References: From: jmoyer@redhat.com Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:58:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:41:28 +0100 (MET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.5-b27 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1407 Lines: 37 ==> Regarding Re: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor number 0; Jan Engelhardt adds: jengelh> On Jan 12 2007 11:32, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:32:11 -0500 >> From: Jeff Moyer >> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List >> Cc: Steven Fernandez , Andrew Morton >> Subject: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minor >> number 0 >> >> Hi, >> >> Minor number 0 (under the raw major) is reserved for the rawctl device >> file, which is used to query, set, and unset raw device bindings. >> However, the ioctl interface does not protect the user from specifying >> a raw device with minor number 0: jengelh> No idea what to say about this... probably: jengelh> What: RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER) jengelh> When: December 2005 jengelh> Why: declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3 jengelh> O_DIRECT can be used instead jengelh> Who: Adrian Bunk It's still present, still used, and so would benefit from being fixed, in my opinion. Cheers, Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/