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drivers/net/tehuti: use proper capability check for raw IO access

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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>
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Linus Torvalds 2008-04-29 11:45:16 -07:00
parent 9781db7b34
commit 6203554207
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@ -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]) {