linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] blk-zoned: allow zone management send operations without CAP_SYS

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Message-ID: <622cb1ab-f5d5-3e0a-cd0e-e5baa9691ebb@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 12:56:57 -0500
From:   Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...cle.com>
To:     Niklas Cassel <Niklas.Cassel@....com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        Shaun Tancheff <shaun@...cheff.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
Cc:     "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] blk-zoned: allow zone management send operations
 without CAP_SYS_ADMIN



On 6/14/21 7:23 AM, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@....com>
> 
> 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@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.10+
> ---
> Changes since v2:
> -None
> 
> Note to backporter:
> Function was added as blkdev_reset_zones_ioctl() in v4.10.
> Function was renamed to blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl() in v5.5.
> The patch is valid both before and after the function rename.
> 
>   block/blk-zoned.c | 3 ---
>   1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-zoned.c b/block/blk-zoned.c
> index 250cb76ee615..0789e6e9f7db 100644
> --- a/block/blk-zoned.c
> +++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
> @@ -349,9 +349,6 @@ int blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>   	if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(q))
>   		return -ENOTTY;
>   
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> -		return -EACCES;
> -
>   	if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
>   		return -EBADF;
>   
> 

Looks Good.

Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...cle.com>

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Himanshu Madhani                                Oracle Linux Engineering