namespace list locking and ioctl fixes
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Thu Dec 24 02:15:52 PST 2015
This series fixes locking for the namespace list in the
nvme controller, and also sorts out two major issue with
the ioctl interface:
(1) it fixes access to the namespace in the NVME_IOCTL_IO_CMD ioctl
on the character device and disables it for the unsafe case
of a device with multiple namepaces. It also warns about
this usage in general.
(2) it makes the SG_IO emulation optional. There is no need to
emulate SCSI commands for a Linux block device, and the
current code actually is bigger than the rest of the NVMe
core driver in source and binary form. Anyone who cares
about build size or reduce attack surface should disable
it. In fact I can't see any good reason to enabe it at all.
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