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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 <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Banerjee, Debabrata 2014-07-30 13:50:17 -04:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 2b391ee2ca
commit 388070faa1
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@ -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,