Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:07:50 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: don't require root to read tcp_metrics | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:50:17 -0400
> 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>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
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