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, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index 0f8d9619adea..16c193a6c95c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -4346,8 +4346,6 @@ static int e1000_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr,
                 data->phy_id = adapter->hw.phy.addr;
                 break;
         case SIOCGMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 switch (data->reg_num & 0x1F) {
                 case MII_BMCR:
                         data->val_out = adapter->phy_regs.bmcr;