netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms

Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days,
capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from
the current process.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
[chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 97ecd923d7ee..a808fb1e877d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1364,12 +1364,6 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
         NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = dst_group;
         memcpy(NETLINK_CREDS(skb), &siocb->scm->creds, sizeof(struct ucred));
 
-        /* What can I do? Netlink is asynchronous, so that
-           we will have to save current capabilities to
-           check them, when this message will be delivered
-           to corresponding kernel module.   --ANK (980802)
-         */
-
         err = -EFAULT;
         if (memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, len), msg->msg_iov, len)) {
                 kfree_skb(skb);