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blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
commit 4d643b6 upstream. 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: 3ed05a9 ("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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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