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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2012-01-03 12:25:16 -0500
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2012-01-05 18:53:01 -0500
commitfd778461524849afd035679030ae8e8873c72b81 (patch)
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security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()
Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective capabilities from the skb that was being received. Today we instead get the capabilities from the current task. This has rendered the entire purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the capable() call. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 482fa571b4ee..05fedbf489a5 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int genl_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if ((ops->flags & GENL_ADMIN_PERM) &&
- security_netlink_recv(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) {