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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:33:34 +0300 (EEST) From: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg> To: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@...mai.com> cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't require root to read tcp_metrics Hello, On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Debabrata Banerjee wrote: > commit d23ff701643a4a725e2c7a8ba2d567d39daa29ea 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. Not sure how fatal is to show TCP fastopen cookies to any user. Otherwise, I don't remember for other restrictions. Regards -- Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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