Hi, On 7/30/14, 3:33 PM, "Julian Anastasov" <j...@ssi.bg> wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Debabrata Banerjee wrote: > >> commit d23ff701643a4a725e2c7a8ba2d567d39daa29ea 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. > > Not sure how fatal is to show TCP fastopen cookies to >any user. Otherwise, I don't remember for other restrictions.
TFO cookie as reported is sent in the clear in the tcp header. It is not the secret/key used to generate the cookie, so this should be fine. -Debabrata -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
