Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756738Ab2FOK5H (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:57:07 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:59293 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756514Ab2FOK5E (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:57:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:00:32 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jan Kara Cc: Jens Axboe , LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition Message-ID: <20120615120032.235648f1@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1339757457-15646-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> References: <1339757457-15646-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1251 Lines: 28 On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:50:57 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > 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: Jens Axboe > CC: James Bottomley > CC: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Alan Cox -- 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/