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-rw-r--r--fs/proc/kcore.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/kcore.c b/fs/proc/kcore.c
index ee2c576cc94e..e2ed8e08cc7a 100644
--- a/fs/proc/kcore.c
+++ b/fs/proc/kcore.c
@@ -548,11 +548,12 @@ static int open_kcore(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
 	int ret = security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_KCORE);
 
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	filp->private_data = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!filp->private_data)
 		return -ENOMEM;