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| author | Ben Hutchings | 2009-09-03 12:39:43 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2009-09-04 05:02:11 +0200 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/e1000e | |
| parent | netdev: Remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE aliases for MDIO ioctls (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/e1000e')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c index 0f8d9619adea..16c193a6c95c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c @@ -4346,8 +4346,6 @@ static int e1000_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr, data->phy_id = adapter->hw.phy.addr; break; case SIOCGMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; switch (data->reg_num & 0x1F) { case MII_BMCR: data->val_out = adapter->phy_regs.bmcr; |