Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 May 2012 08:40:59 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition |
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On 12-05-03 03:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 02/05/2012 21:38, Mark Lord ha scritto: >>>> >>>> Indeed, RHEL doesn't have the warning at all and blocks all ioctls >>>> including SG_IO (and in the past six months nobody has complained that >>>> something stopped working for them). Never said the patch is perfect... >> hdparm. >> > > Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"? I call it a security fix.
No, that would plain stupid on both our parts. :) The --write-sector flag is allowed only for non-partitions by hdparm itself.
But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise. Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting for the noise message to get reverted.
Cheers
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