Re: PING^7 (was Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customizationof the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542))

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 09:35:02PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> I'll go along with this.  I'm also wondering what the problem would be
> if we just allowed all commands on either CAP_SYS_RAWIO or opening the
> device for write, so we just defer to the filesystem permissions and
> restricted read only opens to the basic all device opcodes.

I've been out of this area for a bit, but the problem used to be that
you could send destructive commands to a partition.  The right fix
for that would be to not allow SG_IO on partitions at all, just
wondering if anything would be broken by this.

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