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| author |   Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2009-09-03 10:39:43 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-03 20:02:11 -0700 |
| commit | 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch) | |
| tree | e305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/via-velocity.c | |
| parent | netdev: Remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE aliases for MDIO ioctls (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.tar.xz linux-dev-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.zip | |
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/via-velocity.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/via-velocity.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c index ced1446dec04..e04e5bee005c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/via-velocity.c +++ b/drivers/net/via-velocity.c @@ -2328,14 +2328,10 @@ static int velocity_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd miidata->phy_id = readb(®s->MIIADR) & 0x1f; break; case SIOCGMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; if (velocity_mii_read(vptr->mac_regs, miidata->reg_num & 0x1f, &(miidata->val_out)) < 0) return -ETIMEDOUT; break; case SIOCSMIIREG: - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; spin_lock_irqsave(&vptr->lock, flags); err = velocity_mii_write(vptr->mac_regs, miidata->reg_num & 0x1f, miidata->val_in); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vptr->lock, flags); |