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Commit 0e0d311e authored by Ian Abbott's avatar Ian Abbott Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: comedi: use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of CAP_NET_ADMIN


If the "comedi" module has been loaded with the
"comedi_num_legacy_minors" module parameter set to a non-zero value,
some reserved comedi devices get created.  These can be attached to a
low-level comedi driver using the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl command,
which checks for the `CAP_SYS_ADMIN` capability.  Of course, the comedi
device needs to be opened before the ioctl command can be sent.  If the
comedi device is unattached, `comedi_open()` currently requires the
`CAP_NET_ADMIN` capability.  It makes more sense to just require the
`CAP_SYS_ADMIN` capability here, so change it.

For the curious, commit a8f80e8f ("Networking: use CAP_NET_ADMIN
when deciding to call request_module") changed this capability from
`CAP_SYS_MODULE` to `CAP_NET_ADMIN`, even though it doesn't seem
relevant here.  The original `CAP_SYS_MODULE` capability was due to the
function having some code to request a module using a "char-major-%i-%i"
alias, but that was never compiled in and was removed by commit
f30f2c2d ("staging: comedi: remove check for CONFIG_KMOD").

Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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