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From 0378c625afe80eb3f212adae42cc33c9f6f31abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:19:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] dm: eliminate potential source of excessive kernel log noise
Git-commit: 0378c625afe80eb3f212adae42cc33c9f6f31abf
Patch-mainline: v5.11-rc4
References: git fixes

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: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

---
 drivers/md/dm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index b3c3c8b4cb42..7bac564f3faa 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int dm_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 		 * subset of the parent bdev; require extra privileges.
 		 */
 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) {
-			DMWARN_LIMIT(
+			DMDEBUG_LIMIT(
 	"%s: sending ioctl %x to DM device without required privilege.",
 				current->comm, cmd);
 			r = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
-- 
2.26.2