netdev: Remove redundant checks for CAP_NET_ADMIN in MDIO implementations

dev_ioctl() already checks capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) before calling the
driver's implementation of MDIO ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c b/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
index e46bf9238692..be2c6cfe6e84 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atl1c/atl1c_main.c
@@ -534,10 +534,6 @@ static int atl1c_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev,
                 break;
 
         case SIOCGMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
-                        retval = -EPERM;
-                        goto out;
-                }
                 if (atl1c_read_phy_reg(&adapter->hw, data->reg_num & 0x1F,
                                     &data->val_out)) {
                         retval = -EIO;
@@ -546,10 +542,6 @@ static int atl1c_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev,
                 break;
 
         case SIOCSMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
-                        retval = -EPERM;
-                        goto out;
-                }
                 if (data->reg_num & ~(0x1F)) {
                         retval = -EFAULT;
                         goto out;