From e90af4a89ba2741aeca20ead47699587b14f0de8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kihwal Lee <kihwal@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 09:16:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] HDFS-11053. Unnecessary superuser check in versionRequest().
 Contributed by Kihwal Lee.

---
 .../apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java    | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java
index 78941631985..c55c4d11100 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeRpcServer.java
@@ -1531,7 +1531,6 @@ public class NameNodeRpcServer implements NamenodeProtocols {
   @Override // DatanodeProtocol, NamenodeProtocol
   public NamespaceInfo versionRequest() throws IOException {
     checkNNStartup();
-    namesystem.checkSuperuserPrivilege();
     return namesystem.getNamespaceInfo();
   }