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From: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Eilon Greenstien <eilong@broadcom.com>,
	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
	Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@tamir.org.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net:add socket option for low latency polling
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:39:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B81790.5040806@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1370982272.1954.8.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>

On 11/06/2013 23:24, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
> [...]
>> --- 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.

OK

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

I thought of allowing to disable even if you are not privileged, but 
this sounds better.

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-11 14:24 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: low latency sockets follow ups Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-11 14:24 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: remove NET_LL_RX_POLL config menue Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-12 22:12   ` David Miller
2013-06-13  2:01     ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-06-13  2:13       ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-13  8:00         ` Daniel Borkmann
2013-06-13 10:09           ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-11 14:24 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net:add socket option for low latency polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-11 14:45   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-11 15:37     ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-11 15:58       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-11 20:24   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-12  6:39     ` Eliezer Tamir [this message]
2013-06-11 14:26 ` [PATCH] sockperf: add SO_LL socketop support Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-12  8:36   ` Amir Vadai
2013-06-12  8:45     ` Eliezer Tamir

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