Re: [PATCH] scsi: allow persistent reservations without CAP_SYS_RAWIO

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 12/06/2012 19:20, James Bottomley ha scritto:
> I don't think you understand how persistent reservations work.
> 
> The first thing I'll say is I agree with Alan.  Unless you can justify
> why you want to relax permissions I'm not going to do it.

See my answer to John.  The reason is that I want to let VMs use
persistent reservations without running them as root.

> But secondly, the reason we're so up in arms about SCSI-3 PR is that
> there's a feature called reservation by transport ID.  This is used to
> reserve multipath devices when one of the paths is down.  Effectively it
> allows a PR-OUT command to set a reservation on any LUN with access only
> to one of them.  It's definitely a hack in the SCSI standard, but it's
> not one that can be controlled by a unix like permission model.  Write
> access to *any* LUN allows you to reserve *all* luns.

Thanks for taking the time to explain---I knew about this, but I thought
it could (perhaps should) be disabled on the SAN.  Anybody could already
use reservation by transport ID if they had root access on the local
machine, no?

Paolo
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