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

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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..

s/NET/SYS/...



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