From 9d3a39a5f1e45827b008fff1ee9cf3cac3409665 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:10:34 -0700
Subject: block: grant IOPRIO_CLASS_RT to CAP_SYS_NICE

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is too broad, and ionice fits into CAP_SYS_NICE's grouping.

Retain CAP_SYS_ADMIN permission for backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
 block/ioprio.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'block/ioprio.c')

diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c
index 04ebd37966f1..364d2294ba90 100644
--- a/block/ioprio.c
+++ b/block/ioprio.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
 
 	switch (class) {
 		case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
-			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 				return -EPERM;
 			fallthrough;
 			/* rt has prio field too */
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