Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl topartition

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:50:57 +0200
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> 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 <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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