blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
authorNiklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:05:19 +0000 (11:05 +0000)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:12:36 +0000 (10:12 -0600)
commit4d643b66089591b4769bcdb6fd1bfeff2fe301b8
tree5bc4632b0450af34c65995d42cab0918281d064f
parentead3b768bb51259e3a5f2287ff5fc9041eb6f450
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>
block/blk-zoned.c