From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: don't allow CAP_NET_ADMIN to load non-netdev
 kernel modules
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:40:06 -0700
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On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 23:18:07 +0300 Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

> As root has CAP_NET_ADMIN, the alias netdev-gre0 is tried and it
> succeeds.

Never mind, my apologies for the noise ... one always reads replies
most carefully just *after* hitting send ...

jake

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