From: Milan Broz When an ioctl is performed on a device with a linear target, simply pass it on to the underlying block device. Note that the ioctl will pass through the filtering in blkdev_ioctl() twice. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Index: linux-2.6.18-rc7/drivers/md/dm-linear.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-rc7.orig/drivers/md/dm-linear.c 2006-10-13 16:56:35.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc7/drivers/md/dm-linear.c 2006-10-13 17:10:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -98,14 +98,25 @@ static int linear_status(struct dm_targe return 0; } +static int linear_ioctl(struct dm_target *ti, struct inode *inode, + struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, + unsigned long arg) +{ + struct linear_c *lc = (struct linear_c *) ti->private; + struct block_device *bdev = lc->dev->bdev; + + return blkdev_ioctl(bdev->bd_inode, filp, cmd, arg); +} + static struct target_type linear_target = { .name = "linear", - .version= {1, 0, 1}, + .version= {1, 0, 2}, .module = THIS_MODULE, .ctr = linear_ctr, .dtr = linear_dtr, .map = linear_map, .status = linear_status, + .ioctl = linear_ioctl, }; int __init dm_linear_init(void)