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Kai Mäkisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi> says: These three patches were developed in response to Bugzilla report https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219419 After device reset, the tape driver allows only operations that don't write or read anything from tape. The reason for this is that many (most ?) drives rewind the tape after reset and the subsequent reads or writes would not be at the tape location the user expects. Reading and writing is allowed again when the user does something to position the tape (e.g., rewind). The Bugzilla report considers the case when a user, after reset, tries to read the drive status with MTIOCGET ioctl, but it fails. MTIOCGET does not return much useful data after reset, but it can be allowed. MTLOAD positions the tape and it should be allowed. The second patch adds these to the set of allowed operations after device reset. The first patch fixes a bug seen when developing the second patch. V2: The third patch is added to fix a bug that resulted in not blocking writes if reset occurs while the device file is not open. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241106095723.63254-1-Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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