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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2011-03-03 13:32:07 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-03-03 13:32:07 -0800
commit01a16b21d6adf992aa863186c3c4e561a57c1714 (patch)
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netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms
Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days, capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from the current process. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> [chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 97ecd923d7ee..a808fb1e877d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1364,12 +1364,6 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = dst_group;
memcpy(NETLINK_CREDS(skb), &siocb->scm->creds, sizeof(struct ucred));
- /* What can I do? Netlink is asynchronous, so that
- we will have to save current capabilities to
- check them, when this message will be delivered
- to corresponding kernel module. --ANK (980802)
- */
-
err = -EFAULT;
if (memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, len), msg->msg_iov, len)) {
kfree_skb(skb);