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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in release
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:37:01AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

> > The folks responsible are no longer active in kernel development ***
> > but as far as I know the async write(command), read(response) were
> > added to bsg over 10 years ago as proof-of-concept and never properly
> > worked in this async mode. The biggest design problem with it that I'm
>
> It was born with that mode, but I don't think anyone ever really used it.
> So it might feasible to simply yank it. That said, just doing a prune
> mode at ->release() time doesn't seem like such a hard task.

"prune mode" being...?

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