[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 2/2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms

[David Miller]

From: Chris Wright <chrisw at sous-sol.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:32:30 -0800

> * Patrick McHardy (kaber at trash.net) wrote:
> 
>> commit 8ff259625f0ab295fa085b0718eed13093813fbc
>> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber at trash.net>
>> Date:   Thu Mar 3 10:17:31 2011 +0100
>> 
>>     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 at trash.net>
> 
> Thanks for doing that Patrick.  I looked at this earlier and thought
> there was still an async path, but I guess that's just to another
> userspace process.
> 
> BTW, I think you missed a couple connector based callers:
> 
> drivers/staging/pohmelfs/config.c:      if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_AD
> drivers/video/uvesafb.c:        if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> 
> Fix those and:
> 
> Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw at sous-sol.org>

Patrick, I'll apply your first patch, please respin this second patch with
the changes mentioned here.

Thanks!