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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	asias.hejun@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PING^7 (was Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542))
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:57:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130621115746.GA5142@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A062B5.8040601@redhat.com>

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 09:05:25AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Linus wanted to keep that for CAP_SYS_RAWIO.  We found two uses of SG_IO
> on partitions: zfs-fuse used SYNCHRONIZE CACHE; some proprietary driver
> used TEST UNIT READY.

FYI I looked at the zfs code and the way it uses it is part of a huge
braindamage.

Given that the upstream appears dead I've Cc'd Asias He as he appears
to somehow maintain it as part of the Debian package.

Asias,

the flushwc() routine in zfs-fuse is overly complicated and will not do
the right thing for many cases like using device mapper, many modern SSD
device, or much simple file backed filesystems.

Fortunately fixing this is trivial - the call to flushwc can be replaced
with a call to fdatasync() and the the kernel will do the right thing
for any backing device or file.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-21 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-06 15:15 [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542) Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 01/14] sg_io: pass request_queue to blk_verify_command Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 02/14] sg_io: reorganize list of allowed commands Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 03/14] sg_io: use different default filters for each device class Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 04/14] sg_io: resolve conflicts between commands assigned to multiple classes (CVE-2012-4542) Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for rare & obsolete device types Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 06/14] sg_io: whitelist another command for multimedia devices Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 07/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for media changers Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 08/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for tapes Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 09/14] sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for disks Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 10/14] sg_io: whitelist a few obsolete commands Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 11/14] sg_io: mark blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults as __init Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 12/14] sg_io: remove remnants of sysfs SG_IO filters Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:16 ` [PATCH v2 13/14] sg_io: introduce unpriv_sgio queue flag Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-06 15:16 ` [PATCH v2 14/14] sg_io: use unpriv_sgio to disable whitelisting for scanners Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13  8:32 ` [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542) Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-13 15:35   ` Douglas Gilbert
2013-02-13 15:48     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-20 16:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-22 22:30   ` PING^2 " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-04 18:18     ` PING^3 " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-17 12:26       ` PING^4 aka The Jon Corbet Effect " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-27 13:31         ` PING^5 aka New ways to attract attentions " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 20:43   ` PING^6 " Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22  6:35 ` PING^7 (was Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542)) Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22  9:32   ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22  9:53     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 10:02       ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 10:23         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 12:07           ` James Bottomley
2013-05-22 14:07             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 16:31               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 13:41           ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 14:12             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 14:30               ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 15:00                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 19:30                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 21:18                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 22:17                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-23  0:54                         ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-23  7:45                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-23  9:02                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-23  9:47                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24  1:44                               ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-24  7:13                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24  8:02                                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-24  8:31                                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24  9:07                                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-24  9:45                                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-24 22:20                                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-25  4:35                                     ` James Bottomley
2013-05-25  5:27                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-25  7:05                                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-25  7:11                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-25  7:21                                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-21 11:57                                           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-05-25  8:37                                       ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-25 11:14                                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-25 12:48                                           ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-25 12:56                                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 15:03               ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 15:53                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 16:32                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-05-22 17:00                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 18:11                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 19:37                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 20:19                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-05-22 20:36                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-25  3:54                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2013-05-28 20:25                       ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-05-29  6:12                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2013-05-22 20:39                   ` Tejun Heo
2013-05-22 21:12                     ` Paolo Bonzini

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