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authorNiklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>2021-08-11 11:05:19 +0000
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2021-08-24 10:12:36 -0600
commit4d643b66089591b4769bcdb6fd1bfeff2fe301b8 (patch)
tree5bc4632b0450af34c65995d42cab0918281d064f /block/blk-zoned.c
parentead3b768bb51259e3a5f2287ff5fc9041eb6f450 (diff)
downloadlinux-4d643b66089591b4769bcdb6fd1bfeff2fe301b8.tar.bz2
blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
A user space process should not need the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability set in order to perform a BLKREPORTZONE ioctl. Getting the zone report is required in order to get the write pointer. Neither read() nor write() requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so it is reasonable that a user space process that can read/write from/to the device, also can get the write pointer. (Since e.g. writes have to be at the write pointer.) Fixes: 3ed05a987e0f ("blk-zoned: implement ioctls") Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Aravind Ramesh <aravind.ramesh@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811110505.29649-3-Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-zoned.c')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-zoned.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-zoned.c b/block/blk-zoned.c
index 8a60dbeb44be..1d0c76c18fc5 100644
--- a/block/blk-zoned.c
+++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
@@ -360,9 +360,6 @@ int blkdev_report_zones_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(q))
return -ENOTTY;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EACCES;
-
if (copy_from_user(&rep, argp, sizeof(struct blk_zone_report)))
return -EFAULT;