HDFS-8805. Archival Storage: getStoragePolicy should not need superuser privilege. Contributed by Brahma Reddy Battula.

(cherry picked from commit 1fc3c779a422bafdb86ad1a5b2349802dda1cb62)

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

@@ -432,6 +432,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8818. Changes the global moveExecutor to per datanode executors and
     changes MAX_SIZE_TO_MOVE to be configurable.  (szetszwo)
 
+    HDFS-8805. Archival Storage: getStoragePolicy should not need superuser privilege.
+    (Brahma Reddy Battula via jing9)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-8026. Trace FSOutputSummer#writeChecksumChunks rather than

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSDirAppendOp.java

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ final class FSDirAppendOp {
     }
 
     HdfsFileStatus stat = FSDirStatAndListingOp.getFileInfo(fsd, src, false,
-        FSDirectory.isReservedRawName(srcArg), true);
+        FSDirectory.isReservedRawName(srcArg));
     if (lb != null) {
       NameNode.stateChangeLog.debug(
           "DIR* NameSystem.appendFile: file {} for {} at {} block {} block"

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSDirStatAndListingOp.java

@@ -105,13 +105,11 @@ class FSDirStatAndListingOp {
     byte[][] pathComponents = FSDirectory.getPathComponentsForReservedPath(src);
     src = fsd.resolvePath(pc, src, pathComponents);
     final INodesInPath iip = fsd.getINodesInPath(src, resolveLink);
-    boolean isSuperUser = true;
     if (fsd.isPermissionEnabled()) {
       fsd.checkPermission(pc, iip, false, null, null, null, null, false);
-      isSuperUser = pc.isSuperUser();
     }
     return getFileInfo(fsd, src, resolveLink,
-        FSDirectory.isReservedRawName(srcArg), isSuperUser);
+        FSDirectory.isReservedRawName(srcArg));
   }
 
   /**
@@ -369,8 +367,7 @@ class FSDirStatAndListingOp {
   }
 
   static HdfsFileStatus getFileInfo(
-      FSDirectory fsd, String src, boolean resolveLink, boolean isRawPath,
-      boolean includeStoragePolicy)
+      FSDirectory fsd, String src, boolean resolveLink, boolean isRawPath)
     throws IOException {
     String srcs = FSDirectory.normalizePath(src);
     if (srcs.endsWith(HdfsConstants.SEPARATOR_DOT_SNAPSHOT_DIR)) {
@@ -385,7 +382,7 @@ class FSDirStatAndListingOp {
     fsd.readLock();
     try {
       final INodesInPath iip = fsd.getINodesInPath(srcs, resolveLink);
-      return getFileInfo(fsd, src, iip, isRawPath, includeStoragePolicy);
+      return getFileInfo(fsd, src, iip, isRawPath, true);
     } finally {
       fsd.readUnlock();
     }

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/FSDirWriteFileOp.java

@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ class FSDirWriteFileOp {
       NameNode.stateChangeLog.debug("DIR* NameSystem.startFile: added " +
           src + " inode " + newNode.getId() + " " + holder);
     }
-    return FSDirStatAndListingOp.getFileInfo(fsd, src, false, isRawPath, true);
+    return FSDirStatAndListingOp.getFileInfo(fsd, src, false, isRawPath);
   }
 
   static EncryptionKeyInfo getEncryptionKeyInfo(FSNamesystem fsn,