Harald Welte wrote:
> [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: only load subsystems if CAP_NET_ADMIN is set
> 
> Without this patch, any user can cause nfnetlink subsystems to be
> autoloaded.  Those subsystems however could add significant processing
> overhead to packet processing, and would refuse any configuration messages
> from non-CAP_NET_ADMIN processes anyway.
> 
> This patch follows a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.

If this patch gets applied, we'll have to cook another patch to kill the
capability checking based on callbacks (nfnl_callback) that we currently
use, right?

-- 
Pablo
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