On 10/24/2017 11:30 PM, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:14 AM, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
>>> Check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN before calling into the driver, similar to
>>> blkdev_flushbuf(). This is safer and can spare a check in the d
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:14 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
>> Check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN before calling into the driver, similar to
>> blkdev_flushbuf(). This is safer and can spare a check in the driver.
>>
>> (Currently BLKROSET is overridden by
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
> Check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN before calling into the driver, similar to
> blkdev_flushbuf(). This is safer and can spare a check in the driver.
>
> (Currently BLKROSET is overridden by md and rbd, rbd is missing the
> check. md has the c
Check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN before calling into the driver, similar to
blkdev_flushbuf(). This is safer and can spare a check in the driver.
(Currently BLKROSET is overridden by md and rbd, rbd is missing the
check. md has the check, but it covers a lot more than BLKROSET.)
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryo
