* Ted Kremenek ([email protected]) wrote:
> In several network drivers that handle the ioctl command SIOCSMIIREG
> (writes a register on the network card) most implementations check for
> the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability. Several drivers use the function
> "generic_mii_ioctl" to process this command (defined in
> drivers/net/mii.c). In mii.c, we see:
This, to me, looks like the device specific (or generic_mii_ioctl)
capability test winds up being redundant. The top-level checks
capabilities already in net/dev/core.c::dev_ioctl(). So, while there's
some room for cleanup, I don't think this is an acutal bug.
thanks,
-chris
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