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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 'drivers/video')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/uvesafb.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
index 52ec0959d462..5180a215d781 100644
--- a/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/uvesafb.c
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static void uvesafb_cn_callback(struct cn_msg *msg, struct netlink_skb_parms *ns
struct uvesafb_task *utask;
struct uvesafb_ktask *task;
- if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!cap_raised(current_cap(), CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return;
if (msg->seq >= UVESAFB_TASKS_MAX)