floppy: disable FDRAWCMD by default
Minh Yuan reported a concurrency use-after-free issue in the floppy code between raw_cmd_ioctl and seek_interrupt. [ It turns out this has been around, and that others have reported the KASAN splats over the years, but Minh Yuan had a reproducer for it and so gets primary credit for reporting it for this fix - Linus ] The problem is, this driver tends to break very easily and nowadays, nobody is expected to use FDRAWCMD anyway since it was used to manipulate non-standard formats. The risk of breaking the driver is higher than the risk presented by this race, and accessing the device requires privileges anyway. Let's just add a config option to completely disable this ioctl and leave it disabled by default. Distros shouldn't use it, and only those running on antique hardware might need to enable it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000b71cdd05d703f6bf@google.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKcFiNC=MfYVW-Jt9A3=FPJpTwCD2PL_ULNCpsCVE5s8ZeBQgQ@...
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