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Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net:add socket option for low latency polling

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2013-06-11 20:24:42
Also in: lkml

On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 17:24 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
adds a socket option for low latency polling.
This allows overriding the global sysctl value with a per-socket one.
[...]
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -913,6 +913,23 @@ set_rcvbuf:
 		sock_valbool_flag(sk, SOCK_SELECT_ERR_QUEUE, valbool);
 		break;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_LL_RX_POLL
+	case SO_LL:
+		if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+			ret = -EACCES;
[...]

Failed capability checks normally result in EPERM whereas EACCES usually
results from a file permission/ACL/label check.

Perhaps unprivileged users should be allowed to set a value as long as
it's less than or equal to the global value?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.


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