On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:35:02PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > I'll go along with this. I'm also wondering what the problem would be > if we just allowed all commands on either CAP_SYS_RAWIO or opening the > device for write, so we just defer to the filesystem permissions and > restricted read only opens to the basic all device opcodes.
I've been out of this area for a bit, but the problem used to be that you could send destructive commands to a partition. The right fix for that would be to not allow SG_IO on partitions at all, just wondering if anything would be broken by this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
