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From: Chris Wright on 15 Jul 2010 12:00
* Chris Wright (chrisw(a)sous-sol.org) wrote:
> The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant
> permission to a disk partition that is not currently open. Part of
> blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk. This simply
> avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a
> partition.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662
>
> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw(a)sous-sol.org>

Andrew, plans to push this on? Christoph doesn't like the whole of
blockdev whitelisting for good reason, but it's currently in use and
has this bug.

thanks,
-chris
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