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Revert "pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space...
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:50:50 +0000 (07:50 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:50:50 +0000 (07:50 -0800)
commit8a3f4de7aa7dbd01d59bca75f0ba855cb6189de9
tree9c87581db9131af941027f34f7504c61e632d392
parenta0662acfbf88cab85dd11db3e43adcd647d9da6e
Revert "pci: use security_capable() when checking capablities during config space read"

This reverts commit b8c41aba50c78a0a8b876f6c5529b7749a427bc0.

It turns out it breaks several distributions.  Looks like the stricter
selinux checks fail due to selinux policies not being set to allow the
access - breaking X, but also lspci.

So while the change was clearly the RightThing(tm) to do in theory, in
practice we have backwards compatibility issues making it not work.

Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c