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* ethtool: allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for users
@ 2012-01-22 10:20 Michał Mirosław
  2012-01-23  1:19 ` Ben Hutchings
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Michał Mirosław @ 2012-01-22 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

Allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO ethtool ioctl() for unprivileged users.
ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS is already allowed, but is unusable without this one.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
---
 net/core/ethtool.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

[against net, but probably suitable for stable, too]

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 921aa2b..369b418 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1311,6 +1311,7 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
 	case ETHTOOL_GRXCSUM:
 	case ETHTOOL_GTXCSUM:
 	case ETHTOOL_GSG:
+	case ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO:
 	case ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS:
 	case ETHTOOL_GTSO:
 	case ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR:
-- 
1.7.8.3

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* ethtool: allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for users
@ 2012-06-12 23:27 Ben Hutchings
  2012-06-13  4:33 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ben Hutchings @ 2012-06-12 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev, Michał Mirosław

Please consider this for stable 3.0.y and 3.2.y:

commit f80400a26a2e8bff541de12834a1134358bb6642
Author: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Date:   Sun Jan 22 00:20:40 2012 +0000

    ethtool: allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO for users
    
    Allow ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO ethtool ioctl() for unprivileged users.
    ETHTOOL_GSTRINGS is already allowed, but is unusable without this one.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
    Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Ben.

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