From: Banerjee, Debabrata Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:50:17 +0000 (-0400) Subject: tcp: don't require root to read tcp_metrics X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.17/fixes-against-rc2~149^2~45 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=388070faa1e1f6138c1ea0e82271c7ecb3f36477;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 --- Reading git-diff-tree failed