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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700
commit7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch)
treee305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/mdio.c
parentaae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (diff)
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netdev: Remove redundant checks for CAP_NET_ADMIN in MDIO implementations
dev_ioctl() already checks capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) before calling the driver's implementation of MDIO ioctls. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/mdio.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/mdio.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio.c b/drivers/net/mdio.c
index 7d2e610..21f8754 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mdio.c
@@ -380,10 +380,7 @@ int mdio_mii_ioctl(const struct mdio_if_info *mdio,
cmd = SIOCGMIIREG;
break;
case SIOCGMIIREG:
- break;
case SIOCSMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
break;
default:
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
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