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, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.c b/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.c
index 10c06b97001f..ab688862093f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.c
@@ -966,8 +966,6 @@ static int atl2_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
                 data->phy_id = 0;
                 break;
         case SIOCGMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->stats_lock, flags);
                 if (atl2_read_phy_reg(&adapter->hw,
                         data->reg_num & 0x1F, &data->val_out)) {
@@ -977,8 +975,6 @@ static int atl2_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->stats_lock, flags);
                 break;
         case SIOCSMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 if (data->reg_num & ~(0x1F))
                         return -EFAULT;
                 spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->stats_lock, flags);