Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2015 08:59:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3] mmc: block: Add new ioctl to send multi commands | From | Ulf Hansson <> |
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>>> + /* >>> + * The caller must have CAP_SYS_RAWIO, and must be calling this on the >>> + * whole block device, not on a partition. This prevents overspray >>> + * between sibling partitions. >>> + */ >>> + if ((!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) || (bdev != bdev->bd_contains)) >>> + return -EPERM; >> >> This check is common for multi and non-multi. Please move it to the >> mmc_blk_ioctl() to avoid some code duplication. > > Yes that's true. I can move but it means also passing bdev to > __mmc_blk_ioctl_cmd() as another argument. It is not a big deal, but it > was more convenient to test here. If your preference is to consolidate > the tests to one place then I will move this test.
I was suggesting to move it to mmc_blk_ioctl() and not to __mmc_blk_ioctl_cmd(). That shouldn't cause any changes to any function-definitions, right!?
Kind regards Uffe
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