[patch 6/6][RFC] Drop CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement on FIBMAP

[Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>]

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;

--
-
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