Re: [PATCH stable 3/4] block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls onpartition devices

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 01:56:10PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/18/2012 05:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >>  There is harm.  You'll be blacklisting also the standard block device
> >>  ioctls, and those won't work on 32-on-64 anymore.  A system with 32-bit
> >>  userland will likely not boot anymore.
> >
> >It does (yes, I tested that myself now).  The standard block device
> >ioctls are handled without calling the driver's compat_ioctl.
> 
> What about the non-compat path when done by non-root?
> 
> * Does BLKROSET still return EACCES when run by non-root and without
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN?  I suspect your patch is changing it to EINVAL.
> 
> * Does BLKFLSBUF work when run by non-root but with CAP_SYS_ADMIN?

I'm confused here as well.

Can someone please send me the proper patch that I need to apply to
resolve this issue on the 2.6.32.y kernel?

thanks,

greg k-h
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