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[5.14,019/432] blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN

Message ID 20210916155811.472254043@linuxfoundation.org
State Superseded
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Sept. 16, 2021, 3:56 p.m. UTC 
From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>

commit 4d643b66089591b4769bcdb6fd1bfeff2fe301b8 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 block/blk-zoned.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
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--- a/block/blk-zoned.c
+++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
@@ -360,9 +360,6 @@  int blkdev_report_zones_ioctl(struct blo
 	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;