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netns: fdb: allow unprivileged users to add/del fdb entries

Right now,only ixgdb,macvlan,vxlan and bridge implement
fdb_add/fdb_del operations.

these operations only operate the private data of net
device. So allowing the unprivileged users who creates
the userns and netns to add/del fdb entries will do no
harm to other netns.

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Gao feng 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 0 additions and 6 deletions
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      net/core/rtnetlink.c

+ 0 - 6
net/core/rtnetlink.c

@@ -2058,9 +2058,6 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_add(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 	u8 *addr;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, sizeof(*ndm), tb, NDA_MAX, NULL);
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
@@ -2127,9 +2124,6 @@ static int rtnl_fdb_del(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, void *arg)
 	int err = -EINVAL;
 	__u8 *addr;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	if (nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(*ndm))
 		return -EINVAL;