Re: [PATCH] scsi: allow persistent reservations without CAP_SYS_RAWIO

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 18:08 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Persistent reservations commands cannot be issued right now without
> giving CAP_SYS_RAWIO to the process who wishes to send them.  This
> is a bit heavy-handed, allow these two commands.

Why is this heavy handed?  If you remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO, any userspace
process can send these, which would allow any user to completely disrupt
a SAN by injecting spurious reservations ... that doesn't look to be
terribly safe for an operating system running in a data centre.

James
 

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