Re: [patch] raw: don't allow the creation of a raw device with minornumber 0

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 12 2007 11:32, Jeff Moyer wrote:

>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:32:11 -0500
>From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: Steven Fernandez <sfernand@xxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
>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:

No idea what to say about this... probably:

  What:   RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
  When:   December 2005
  Why:    declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
          O_DIRECT can be used instead
  Who:    Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>



	-`J'
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