* Ted Kremenek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In several network drivers that handle the ioctl command SIOCSMIIREG > (writes a register on the network card) most implementations check for > the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. Several drivers use the function > "generic_mii_ioctl" to process this command (defined in > drivers/net/mii.c). In mii.c, we see:
This, to me, looks like the device specific (or generic_mii_ioctl) capability test winds up being redundant. The top-level checks capabilities already in net/dev/core.c::dev_ioctl(). So, while there's some room for cleanup, I don't think this is an acutal bug. thanks, -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
