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md: allow non-privileged uses to GET_*_INFO about raid arrays.

The info is already available in /proc/mdstat and /sys/block in
an accessible form so there is no point in putting a road-block in
the ioctl for information gathering.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 9 2
      drivers/md/md.c

+ 9 - 2
drivers/md/md.c

@@ -6054,8 +6054,15 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	struct mddev *mddev = NULL;
 	int ro;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return -EACCES;
+	switch (cmd) {
+	case RAID_VERSION:
+	case GET_ARRAY_INFO:
+	case GET_DISK_INFO:
+		break;
+	default:
+		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+			return -EACCES;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Commands dealing with the RAID driver but not any