From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-ethtool: ETHTOOL_GUFO did not and should not require CAP_NET_ADMIN Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20180922.171208.254494473170391614.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180922083401.12131-1-zenczykowski@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: maze@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: zenczykowski@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:52412 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725886AbeIWGHg (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2018 02:07:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180922083401.12131-1-zenczykowski@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Maciej Żenczykowski" Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:34:01 -0700 > From: Maciej Żenczykowski > > So it should not fail with EPERM even though it is no longer implemented... > > This is a fix for: > (userns)$ egrep ^Cap /proc/self/status > CapInh: 0000003fffffffff > CapPrm: 0000003fffffffff > CapEff: 0000003fffffffff > CapBnd: 0000003fffffffff > CapAmb: 0000003fffffffff > > (userns)$ tcpdump -i usb_rndis0 > tcpdump: WARNING: usb_rndis0: SIOCETHTOOL(ETHTOOL_GUFO) ioctl failed: Operation not permitted > Warning: Kernel filter failed: Bad file descriptor > tcpdump: can't remove kernel filter: Bad file descriptor > > With this change it returns EOPNOTSUPP instead of EPERM. > > See also https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/689 > > Fixes: 08a00fea6de2 "net: Remove references to NETIF_F_UFO from ethtool." > Cc: David S. Miller > Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.