Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to pass-through SCSI commands

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH] xen-block: introduces extra request to 
pass-through SCSI commands"):
> One thing I'm still not sure about PVSCSI is do we have the same security 
> issue since LIO can interface to any block device.
> E.g when using a partition /dev/sda1 as the PVSCSI-backend, but the 
> PVSCSI-frontend may still send SCSI operates on LUN bases (the whole disk).

I don't think you can use pvscsi to passthrough a partition such as
/dev/sda1.  Such a thing is not a SCSI command target.

Ian.

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