From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxx>
Zone management send operations (BLKRESETZONE, BLKOPENZONE, BLKCLOSEZONE
and BLKFINISHZONE) should be allowed under the same permissions as write().
(write() does not require CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
Additionally, other ioctls like BLKSECDISCARD and BLKZEROOUT only check if
the fd was successfully opened with FMODE_WRITE.
(They do not require CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
Currently, zone management send operations require both CAP_SYS_ADMIN
and that the fd was successfully opened with FMODE_WRITE.
Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN requirement, so that zone management send
operations match the access control requirement of write(), BLKSECDISCARD
and BLKZEROOUT.
Fixes: 3ed05a987e0f ("blk-zoned: implement ioctls")
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Aravind Ramesh <aravind.ramesh@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Adam Manzanares <a.manzanares@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.10+
---
Changes since v3:
-Picked up additional Reviewed-by tags.
Note to backporter:
Function was added as blkdev_reset_zones_ioctl() in v4.10.
Function was renamed to blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl() in v5.5.
The patch is valid both before and after the function rename.
block/blk-zoned.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-zoned.c b/block/blk-zoned.c
index 86fce751bb17..8a60dbeb44be 100644
--- a/block/blk-zoned.c
+++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
@@ -421,9 +421,6 @@ int blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(q))
return -ENOTTY;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EACCES;
-
if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
return -EBADF;
--
2.31.1
