security: remove the security_netlink_recv hook as it is equivalent to capable()

Once upon a time netlink was not sync and we had to get the effective
capabilities from the skb that was being received.  Today we instead get
the capabilities from the current task.  This has rendered the entire
purpose of the hook moot as it is now functionally equivalent to the
capable() call.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 482fa571b4ee..05fedbf489a5 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int genl_rcv_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
                 return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
         if ((ops->flags & GENL_ADMIN_PERM) &&
-            security_netlink_recv(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+            !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
                 return -EPERM;
 
         if (nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) {