Stephen Hemminger wrote:
There is no reason to not allow non-admin users to query network
statistics and settings.
NAK.
Some functions in the past didn't like getting hit rapidly in succession.
I would agree to this, but only after an exhaustive audit of each driver
and each sub-ioctl. Right now, I only have confidence in GDRVINFO
probably being safe -- but still that requires an audit, since in rare
cases the driver may be poking firmware and eeprom areas.
Finally, I fixed a buffer overflow in ethtool version 5, so an audit to
make sure overflows cannot affect the kernel is basically _required_.
Jeff
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