[PATCH] kvm: remove CAP_SYS_RAWIO requirement fromkvm_vm_ioctl_assign_irq

[Alex Williamson]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c b/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c
index 4d10b1e..64672e2 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/assigned-dev.c
@@ -448,9 +448,6 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_assign_irq(struct kvm *kvm,
 	struct kvm_assigned_dev_kernel *match;
 	unsigned long host_irq_type, guest_irq_type;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	if (!irqchip_in_kernel(kvm))
 		return r;
 

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