(lkml readers: this concerns a security issue reported to debian by a user of udev/aacraid. udev gives the aacraid devices the floppy group because it reports block devices as 'removable'. See http://bugs.debian.org/404927 for the entire thread).
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:49:51AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 03, dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you elaborate on what you believe the kernel is doing > > incorrectly? My first guess would be the setting of the removable > > flag, but aacraid claims to be setting this to prevent partition table > > caching - do you believe that to be an incorrect usage? > Yes, this looks like an abuse of the interface to me. Ok, let's ask lkml > > It seems like there is precedence for workarounds for older kernels in > > permissions.rules, so would it be appropriate to add an override of > > the default floppy rule for aacraid devices for compatability even if > > this is a kernel bug? > There are workarounds for bugs which are going to be fixed, but looks > like this is going to stay forever... > Are there other drivers in this situation? I didn't turn up any otherwise when I was grepping yesterday, but my search terms may have been too naive. I also checked a machine I had w/ cciss - it did not have the removable flag set. I found a message from Mark Salyzyn from last year that suggested this was more pervasive: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.2/1231.html Mark: Can you identify some of these other drivers? -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
