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

[Michael Tokarev]

reassign 656899 src:linux-2.6 3.2.1-1
tags 656899 + upstream confirmed
thanks

On 24.01.2012 00:05, Rik Theys wrote:
> 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.

So the package version is 3.2.1-1.

This is a (upstream) kernel bug, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/24/136

Reassigning.

Thanks,

/mjt