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agp: remove uid comparison as security check
authorserue@us.ibm.com <serue@us.ibm.com>
Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:55:36 +0000 (13:55 -0800)
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Tue, 5 Feb 2008 04:33:32 +0000 (14:33 +1000)
In the face of containers and user namespaces, a uid==0 check for
security is not safe.  Switch to a capability check.

I'm not sure I picked the right capability, but this being AGP
CAP_SYS_RAWIO seemed to make sense.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>

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