Re: [PATCH v6 02/16] chardev: introduce cdev_get_by_path()

[Sagi Grimberg]

> > So, as was kind of alluded to in another part of the thread, what are
> > you doing about permissions? It seems that any user/group permissions
> > are out the window when you have the kernel itself do the opening of the
> > char device, right? Why is that ok? You can pass it _any_ character
> > device node and away it goes? What if you give it a "wrong" one? Char
> > devices are very different from block devices this way.
>
> We could condition any configfs operation on capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) to
> close that hole for now..

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