From 388070faa1e1f6138c1ea0e82271c7ecb3f36477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Banerjee, Debabrata" <dbanerje@akamai.com>
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 <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>
---
 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,
-- 
2.30.2