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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2009-09-03 14:39:43 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-09-04 07:02:11 +0400
commit7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd (patch)
treee305ec96eceebb285efee4b6fd307822ab257fe6 /drivers/net/igb
parentaae5e7c30fc660c50dfecbdd745799b05af90f01 (diff)
downloadlinux-7ab0f2736bfe137a82a7084bbfb5f809da95cabd.tar.xz
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/igb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
index 90b0b1b91730..943186b78483 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -4914,8 +4914,6 @@ static int igb_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
data->phy_id = adapter->hw.phy.addr;
break;
case SIOCGMIIREG:
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
if (igb_read_phy_reg(&adapter->hw, data->reg_num & 0x1F,
&data->val_out))
return -EIO;