Remove the need for having CAP_SYS_RAWIO when doing a FIBMAP call on an open file descriptor. It would be nice to allow users to have permission to see where their data is landing on disk, and there really isn't a good reason to keep them from getting at this information. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@xxxxxxxxxx> fs/ioctl.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.23/fs/ioctl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23.orig/fs/ioctl.c 2007-10-09 13:31:38.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23/fs/ioctl.c 2007-10-25 15:48:24.000000000 -0700 @@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ static int file_ioctl(struct file *filp, /* do we support this mess? */ if (!mapping->a_ops->bmap) return -EINVAL; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) - return -EPERM; if ((error = get_user(block, p)) != 0) return error; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
