Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 6 authors, 2018-07-11

Re: [PATCH] sg, bsg: mitigate read/write abuse, block uaccess in release

From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2018-06-18 16:17:12
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:37:01AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
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The folks responsible are no longer active in kernel development ***
but as far as I know the async write(command), read(response) were
added to bsg over 10 years ago as proof-of-concept and never properly
worked in this async mode. The biggest design problem with it that I'm
It was born with that mode, but I don't think anyone ever really used it.
So it might feasible to simply yank it. That said, just doing a prune
mode at ->release() time doesn't seem like such a hard task.
"prune mode" being...?
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