From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@xxxxxxx> commit ead3b768bb51259e3a5f2287ff5fc9041eb6f450 upstream. 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> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.10+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210811110505.29649-2-Niklas.Cassel@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-zoned.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/block/blk-zoned.c +++ b/block/blk-zoned.c @@ -357,9 +357,6 @@ int blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl(struct block_ if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(q)) return -ENOTTY; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) - return -EACCES; - if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE)) return -EBADF;