On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 04:54:52PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> After the first few months, the message has not led to many bug reports.
> It's been almost five years now, and in practice the main source of
> it seems to be MTIOCGET that someone is using to detect tape devices.
> While we could whitelist it just like CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY, this patch
> just removes the message altogether.
> 
> The patch also removes the "safe but not very useful" ioctl whitelist,
> as suggested by Christoph.  I doubt anything is using most of those
> ioctls _in general_, let alone on a partition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>

Nice, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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