dm: eliminate potential source of excessive kernel log noise
authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Jan 2021 23:19:05 +0000 (18:19 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:27:33 +0000 (18:27 +0100)
commit0eb56457d239f5ee555ad9dc0c086a0abd933f1b
tree328dd3e3a8d8d9ae68b500f38f43f3df8861bef8
parent26865769ed8f03c49106c3e2e588733ca55c3525
dm: eliminate potential source of excessive kernel log noise

commit 0378c625afe80eb3f212adae42cc33c9f6f31abf upstream.

There wasn't ever a real need to log an error in the kernel log for
ioctls issued with insufficient permissions. Simply return an error
and if an admin/user is sufficiently motivated they can enable DM's
dynamic debugging to see an explanation for why the ioctls were
disallowed.

Reported-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Fixes: e980f62353c6 ("dm: don't allow ioctls to targets that don't map to whole devices")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm.c