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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-11-16 03:03:11 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-11-18 20:33:36 -0500
commitb51642f6d77b131dc85d1d71029c3cbb5b07c262 (patch)
tree0f3feb16dad1cd729dff368396ee90cd424797a1 /net/bridge/br_netlink.c
parentnet: Enable some sysctls that are safe for the userns root (diff)
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net: Enable a userns root rtnl calls that are safe for unprivilged users
- Only allow moving network devices to network namespaces you have CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges over. - Enable creating/deleting/modifying interfaces - Enable adding/deleting addresses - Enable adding/setting/deleting neighbour entries - Enable adding/removing routes - Enable adding/removing fib rules - Enable setting the forwarding state - Enable adding/removing ipv6 address labels - Enable setting bridge parameter Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_netlink.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index 49e14937019d..65429b99a2a3 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -240,9 +240,6 @@ int br_setlink(struct net_device *dev, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
struct nlattr *tb[IFLA_BRPORT_MAX];
int err;
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
-
ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
protinfo = nlmsg_find_attr(nlh, sizeof(*ifm), IFLA_PROTINFO);