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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Oleksii Kurochko <olkuroch@cisco.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: block: Handle cases where devices come online read-only
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:26:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1h8d9ug55.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01000168dd40a901-e418f724-3fe3-47e3-bbea-05fea79f169e-000000@email.amazonses.com> (Jeremy Cline's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:50:28 +0000")


Jeremy,

> I noticed drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c calls set_disk_ro() to set the
> policy, where-as the policy is set with set_device_ro() in the generic
> ioctl.

There's a subtle distinction here:

 - set_disk_ro() sets the policy for a whole disk

 - set_device_ro() sets the policy for a block_device (typically
   partition)

> It's not setting the policy to DISK_POLICY_USER_WRITE_PROTECT so I
> think it would only be a problem if the user set it to 2 instead of 1
> assuming any truthy value is acceptable. Then the user wouldn't be
> able to mark the disk as writable again since this would be
> true. Perhaps it's a somewhat far-fetched scenario.

OK, I missed that particular entry point. Will fix.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-12 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08 23:38 [PATCH] scsi: sd: block: Handle cases where devices come online read-only Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-11 15:50 ` Jeremy Cline
2019-02-12 16:26   ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2019-02-12  8:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-12  8:08   ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-12 16:50     ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-12 16:47   ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-13  2:57     ` [PATCH v2] scsi: sd: block: Fix regressions in read-only block device handling Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-13  7:13       ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-16  3:02       ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-19  1:36       ` Ming Lei
2019-02-19 23:26         ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-22 14:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-27  4:19         ` [PATCH v3] " Martin K. Petersen

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