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SubjectRE: [PATCH v3 2/2] blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niklas Cassel <Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 5:53 PM
> To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>; Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>; Martin K.
> Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>; Damien Le Moal
> <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>; Shaun Tancheff <shaun@tancheff.com>
> Cc: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>; Niklas Cassel
> <Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com>; stable@vger.kernel.org; Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>;
> linux-block@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN
>
> From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>
>
> 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>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.10+
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> -Drop the FMODE_READ check. Right now it is possible to open() the device with
> O_WRONLY and get the zone report from that fd. Therefore adding a FMODE_READ
> check on BLKREPORTZONE would break existing applications. Instead, just remove
> the existing CAP_SYS_ADMIN check.
>
> block/blk-zoned.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-zoned.c b/block/blk-zoned.c index
> 0789e6e9f7db..457eceabed2e 100644
> --- a/block/blk-zoned.c
> +++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
> @@ -288,9 +288,6 @@ 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;
>
> --
> 2.31.1

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Aravind Ramesh <aravind.ramesh@wdc.com>

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