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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 19:54:31 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement from
 kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_irq
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:46:31AM -0400, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Remove this check in an effort to allow kvm guests to run without
> root privileges.  This capability check doesn't seem to add any
> security since the device needs to have already been added via the
> assign device ioctl and the io actually occurs through the pci
> sysfs interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.