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The code poses a security risk due to user memory access in ->release and had an API that can't be used reliably. As far as we know it was never used for real, but if that turns out wrong we'll have to revert this commit and come up with a band aid. Jann Horn did look software archives for users of this interface, and the only users found were example code in sg3_utils, and optional support in an optional module of the tgt user space iscsi target, which looks like a proof of concept extension of the /dev/sg read/write support. Tony Battersby chimes in that the code is basically unsafe to use in general: The read/write interface on /dev/bsg is impossible to use safely because the list of completed commands is per-device (bd->done_list) rather than per-fd like it is with /dev/sg. So if program A and program B are both using the write/read interface on the same bsg device, then their command responses will get mixed up, and program A will read() some command results from program B and vice versa. So no, I don't use read/write on /dev/bsg. From a security standpoint, it should definitely be fixed or removed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.