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From: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Subject: [patch 6/6][RFC] Drop CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement on FIBMAP
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:37:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071026233849.185498288@crlf.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20071026233732.568575496@crlf.corp.google.com

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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@google.com>
 fs/ioctl.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.23/fs/ioctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23.orig/fs/ioctl.c	2007-10-26 15:30:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.23/fs/ioctl.c	2007-10-26 15:31:43.000000000 -0700
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ static int do_fibmap(struct address_spac
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	if (mapping->a_ops->bmap64) {
 		/* Filesystem has bmap path audited for 64bit. */
 		bmap = mapping->a_ops->bmap64;

--

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-26 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-26 23:37 [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 1/6][RFC] Keep FIBMAP from looking at negative block nrs Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 2/6][RFC] Allow FIBMAP to return EFBIG on large filesystems Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 3/6][RFC] Move FIBMAP logic Mike Waychison
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 4/6][RFC] Attempt to plug race with truncate Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 13:36   ` Chris Mason
2007-10-26 23:37 ` [patch 5/6][RFC] Introduce FIBMAP64 Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 13:45   ` Chris Mason
2007-10-26 23:37 ` Mike Waychison [this message]
2007-10-27 17:57 ` [patch 0/6][RFC] Cleanup FIBMAP Anton Altaparmakov
2007-10-27 21:45   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2007-10-29 14:10   ` Chris Mason
2007-10-29 16:30     ` Zach Brown
2007-10-29 19:18       ` Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 19:46         ` Chris Mason
2007-10-29 20:01           ` Zach Brown
2007-10-29 20:00         ` Zach Brown
2007-10-31 11:06           ` Ric Wheeler
2007-10-31 16:16             ` Zach Brown
2007-10-31 17:17               ` Ric Wheeler
2007-10-29 19:16     ` Mike Waychison
2007-10-29 19:47       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-28  0:43 ` H. Peter Anvin

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