Subject: blkfront: forward unknown IOCTLs to scsi_cmd_ioctl() for /dev/sdX Certain utilities (here: parted) expect certain SCSI IOCTLs (here: SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN) to not fail on /dev/sdX devices. Rather than handling them one-by-one, just forward control to scsi_cmd_ioctl(). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c +++ b/drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c @@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ int blkif_release(struct inode *inode, s int blkif_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filep, unsigned command, unsigned long argument) { + struct blkfront_info *info = inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data; int i; DPRINTK_IOCTL("command: 0x%x, argument: 0x%lx, dev: 0x%04x\n", @@ -568,14 +569,23 @@ int blkif_ioctl(struct inode *inode, str return 0; case CDROM_GET_CAPABILITY: { - struct blkfront_info *info = - inode->i_bdev->bd_disk->private_data; struct gendisk *gd = info->gd; if (gd->flags & GENHD_FL_CD) return 0; return -EINVAL; } default: + if (info->mi && info->gd) { + switch (info->mi->major) { + case SCSI_DISK0_MAJOR: + case SCSI_DISK1_MAJOR ... SCSI_DISK7_MAJOR: + case SCSI_DISK8_MAJOR ... SCSI_DISK15_MAJOR: + case SCSI_CDROM_MAJOR: + return scsi_cmd_ioctl(filep, info->gd, command, + (void __user *)argument); + } + } + /*printk(KERN_ALERT "ioctl %08x not supported by Xen blkdev\n", command);*/ return -EINVAL; /* same return as native Linux */