Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partitiondevices

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 09:51 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 12:43 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Anyway, with the changes to print out warnings and still allow it for
> > root, this all looked safe and nice, so they are in my tree now. I
> > only noticed after applying them that you hadn't marked them with 'cc:
> > stable@xxxxxxxxxx', so we should probably point Greg at them. They are
> > commits
> >
> >    577ebb374c78 block: add and use scsi_blk_cmd_ioctl
> >    0bfc96cb7722 block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
> >    ec8013beddd7 dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the
> > underlying device
> >
> > in my tree now.
> 
> I'll tweak them myself for stable based on what you committed, so that 
> they do not require your ENOTTY/ENOIOCTLCMD change (i.e. with the uglier 
> v1 implementation).
> 
> Thanks very much.

Paolo, I've just done this for Debian's stable kernel based on 2.6.32.
I'll send them as a follow-up to this.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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