From 7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:39:43 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/mii.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/mii.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/mii.c b/drivers/net/mii.c index d81a5d22a3a9..210b2b164b30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mii.c +++ b/drivers/net/mii.c @@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ int generic_mii_ioctl(struct mii_if_info *mii_if, case SIOCSMIIREG: { u16 val = mii_data->val_in; - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; - if (mii_data->phy_id == mii_if->phy_id) { switch(mii_data->reg_num) { case MII_BMCR: { -- cgit v1.2.3