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block: silently forbid sending any ioctl to a partition
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:54:52 +0000 (16:54 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:30:37 +0000 (12:30 -0700)
commit37d85ed73b526eab737ac97bcf22eed59a6d2383
tree6657bf4a8000bdaa4deea628627dcca99a007821
parent2df9efda196609b69a886657550824a929e84ebd
block: silently forbid sending any ioctl to a partition

After the first few months, the message has not led to many bug reports.
It's been almost five years now, and in practice the main source of
it seems to be MTIOCGET that someone is using to detect tape devices.
While we could whitelist it just like CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, this patch
just removes the message altogether.

The patch also removes the "safe but not very useful" ioctl whitelist,
as suggested by Christoph.  I doubt anything is using most of those
ioctls _in general_, let alone on a partition.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block/scsi_ioctl.c