HDFS-11053. Unnecessary superuser check in versionRequest(). Contributed by Kihwal Lee.

Updated CHANGES.txt
(cherry picked from commit e90af4a89ba2741aeca20ead47699587b14f0de8)

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

@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ Release 2.7.4 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-10712. TestDataNodeVolumeFailure should pass not null
     BlockReportContext. (Vinitha Gankidi via shv)
 
+    HDFS-11053. Unnecessary superuser check in versionRequest() (kihwal)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-10896. Move lock logging logic from FSNamesystem into FSNamesystemLock.

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

@@ -1410,7 +1410,6 @@ class NameNodeRpcServer implements NamenodeProtocols {
   @Override // DatanodeProtocol, NamenodeProtocol
   public NamespaceInfo versionRequest() throws IOException {
     checkNNStartup();
-    namesystem.checkSuperuserPrivilege();
     return namesystem.getNamespaceInfo();
   }