Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ide-cd problems | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:54:31 +0100 |
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On Sad, 2004-07-31 at 21:00, Jens Axboe wrote: > If you want it to work that way, you have the have a pass-through filter > in the kernel knowing what commands are out there (including vendor > specific ones). That's just too ugly and not really doable or > maintainable, sorry.
I disagree providing you turn it the other way around. The majority of scsi commands have to be protected because you can destroy the drive with some of them or bypass the I/O layers. (Eg using SG_IO to do writes to raw disk to bypass auditing layers)
So you need CAP_SYS_RAWIO for most commands. You can easily build a list of sane commands for a given media type that are harmless and it fits the kernel role of a gatekeeper to do that.
Providing the 'allowed' function is driver level and we also honour read/write properly for that case (so it doesnt bypass block I/O restrictions and fail the least suprise test) then it seems quite doable.
For such I/O you'd then do
if(capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) || driver->allowed(driver, blah, cmdblock))
If the allowed function filters positively "unknown is not allowed" and the default allowed function is simply "no" it works.
We'd end up with a list of allowed commands for all sorts of operations that don't threaten the machine while blocking vendor specific wonders and also cases where users can do stuff like firmware erase.
Alan
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