Bug#656899: Fwd: Bug#656899: mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition warnings in kernel log with kernel 3.2

[Rik Theys]

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Hi,

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> On 22.01.2012 22:42, Rik Theys wrote:
>> The updates installed linux kernel 3.2, which I assume is triggering this.
>> Recently there was a security issue with ioctls sent to partitions being
>> forwarded to the whole disk. I assume the 3.2 kernel has a fix for this and
>> this is causing the messages.
>
> This is correct, the message is recent addition in
> block/scsi_ioctl.c.
>
> 1261 appears to be BLKFLSBUF, -- I'm not sure why it
> is not allowed for a partition anymore, and why it
> gets routed to scsi_ioctl.c.
>> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>
> Which kernel package version is that, exactly?

This is

Linux version 3.2.0-1-amd64 (Debian 3.2.1-1) (ben at decadent.org.uk)
(gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-11) ) #1 SMP Thu Jan 19 09:46:46 UTC
2012

which is based on the upstream 3.2.1 kernel.

Regards,

Rik


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Rik