Re: [RFC] breakage in bsg
From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Jul 21 2008 - 02:28:19 EST
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:34:06PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> * cmd_filter thing is broken as well (we have no access to
> gendisk in question and there's a lot of obvious issues when you have
> several openers).
>
> #2 and part of #3 are fixable, but I really don't see what to do with #1.
> If nothing else, it's absolutely incompatible with cmd_filter, even if you
> leave aside the issue with non-IDE/non-SCSI drivers.
Actually, cmd_filter changeset breaks all users of blk_verify_command().
It expects that struct file passed to will be that of a block device:
inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
if (!inode)
return -EINVAL;
disk = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk;
return blk_cmd_filter_verify_command(&disk->cmd_filter,
cmd, &file->f_mode);
Unfortunately, all of those can get struct file of *character* device, with
obvious results.
The minimal fix is to pass disk / mode explicitly. I'll post the patch,
but that still leaves bsg broken.
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