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/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
index 90b0b1b91730..943186b78483 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -4914,8 +4914,6 @@ static int igb_mii_ioctl(struct net_device *netdev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
                 data->phy_id = adapter->hw.phy.addr;
                 break;
         case SIOCGMIIREG:
-                if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
-                        return -EPERM;
                 if (igb_read_phy_reg(&adapter->hw, data->reg_num & 0x1F,
                                      &data->val_out))
                         return -EIO;