Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:33:34 +0300 (EEST) | From | Julian Anastasov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tcp: don't require root to read tcp_metrics |
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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@ssi.bg>
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