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 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; -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/