From 388070faa1e1f6138c1ea0e82271c7ecb3f36477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Banerjee, Debabrata" Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:50:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) 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,