Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net:add socket option for low latency polling

From: Eliezer Tamir <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:39:12 +0300

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!