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| author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2011-03-03 22:32:07 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-03-03 22:32:07 +0100 |
| commit | 01a16b21d6adf992aa863186c3c4e561a57c1714 (patch) | |
| tree | a3b1c81e5a5e6a0e9069e4d3a15576741ed34776 /net/netlink | |
| parent | eql: Convert printks to pr_<level> and netdev_<level> (diff) | |
| download | linux-01a16b21d6adf992aa863186c3c4e561a57c1714.tar.xz linux-01a16b21d6adf992aa863186c3c4e561a57c1714.zip | |
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.c | 6 |
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); |