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authorBanerjee, Debabrata <dbanerje@akamai.com>2014-07-30 19:50:17 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-31 23:07:37 +0200
commit388070faa1e1f6138c1ea0e82271c7ecb3f36477 (patch)
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parentteam: fix releasing uninitialized pointer to BPF prog (diff)
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tcp: don't require root to read tcp_metrics
commit d23ff7016 (tcp: add generic netlink support for tcp_metrics) introduced netlink support for the new tcp_metrics, however it restricted getting of tcp_metrics to root user only. This is a change from how these values could have been fetched when in the old route cache. Unless there's a legitimate reason to restrict the reading of these values it would be better if normal users could fetch them. Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
index 4fe041805989..0d54e59b9ea8 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c
@@ -1093,7 +1093,6 @@ static const struct genl_ops tcp_metrics_nl_ops[] = {
.doit = tcp_metrics_nl_cmd_get,
.dumpit = tcp_metrics_nl_dump,
.policy = tcp_metrics_nl_policy,
- .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
},
{
.cmd = TCP_METRICS_CMD_DEL,