Re: [PATCH] blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

[Chris Wright]

* Chris Wright (chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant
> permission to a disk partition that is not currently open.  Part of
> blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.  This simply
> avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a
> partition.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662
> 
> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, plans to push this on?  Christoph doesn't like the whole of
blockdev whitelisting for good reason, but it's currently in use and
has this bug.

thanks,
-chris
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