netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't require root to read tcp

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1407302228460.1826@ja.home.ssi.bg>
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

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Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
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