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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-29 11:45:16 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-05-01 14:44:39 -0700
commitb0cc38c177802742d847469e0a06f4ad31d011cc (patch)
tree175dc2dc84ce0be5385c5a86afaba8afd0df3569 /drivers
parentf5f5e084959d9c22c43c235b206b2e2fe2971e7f (diff)
drivers/net/tehuti: use proper capability check for raw IO access
commit 6203554207728f43cfb9fd48585cd6500da73d42 in mainline. Yeah, in practice they both mean "root", but Alan correctly points out that anybody who gets to do raw IO space accesses should really be using CAP_SYS_RAWIO rather than CAP_NET_ADMIN. Pointed-out-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/tehuti.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tehuti.c b/drivers/net/tehuti.c
index e83b166aa6b9..432e837a1760 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tehuti.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tehuti.c
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static int bdx_ioctl_priv(struct net_device *ndev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
DBG("%d 0x%x 0x%x\n", data[0], data[1], data[2]);
}
- if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EPERM;
switch (data[0]) {