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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2010-08-23 10:24:18 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-08-23 20:43:16 -0700
commit0fdc100bdc4b7ab61ed632962c76dfe539047296 (patch)
tree354e79b15b101a2ace627ce08779e4ef40c1e477 /net
parentafdcba371f9748ac91608bb6c57f170aab7085b4 (diff)
ethtool: allow non-netadmin to query settings
The SNMP daemon uses ethtool to determine the speed of network interfaces. This fails on Debian (and probably elsewhere) because for security SNMP daemon runs as non-root user (snmp). Note: A similar patch was rejected previously because of a concern about the possibility that on some hardware querying the ethtool settings requires access to the PHY and could slow the machine down. But the security risk of requiring SNMP daemon (and related services) to run as root far out weighs the risk of denial-of-service. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/ethtool.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index d2c4da5a6a4f..970eb9817bbc 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1423,6 +1423,7 @@ int dev_ethtool(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr)
/* Allow some commands to be done by anyone */
switch (ethcmd) {
+ case ETHTOOL_GSET:
case ETHTOOL_GDRVINFO:
case ETHTOOL_GMSGLVL:
case ETHTOOL_GCOALESCE: