Re: Ioctl warning for a partition

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It's easy enough to silence the warning the same way as
> CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY since the ioctl is safe but it's not so simple for
> 32-bit userspace.  MTIOCGET32 is defined only in fs/compat_ioctl.c so we
> cannot easily add it to scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(). Any opinion how to cleanly
> solve this? The only idea I had was to define compat structures and ioctl
> numbers in a special header and use it both in fs/compat_ioctl.c and in
> block/scsi_ioctl.c.

I suspect we can just remove the warning entirely - once we've gotten
enough coverage with the -rc kernels that people (me in particular)
are happy that no normal load really needs it, and returning an error
is fine.

So I don't really consider the warning to be something long-term - I
wanted it to make sure that some random binary in some odd
distribution wouldn't break in mysterious ways that would take a lot
of debugging to find. And so that we really know what we end up
blocking in practice.

I'm not sure how good the -rc kernel coverage is, but I think it's
good enough that we can drop the warning before doing a real 3.3
release. And I don't think the stable kernel versions ever got that
warning printout, did they? That would be great for coverage, of
course, if they did.

                      Linus
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