Hi,
It should be possible to obtain bonding information with
SIOCBOND[SLAVE]INFOQUERY ioctls without root privilege
(like with /proc/net/bonding/bond? or ifconfig).
Laurent
Signed-off-by: Laurent Deniel <laurent.deniel@xxxxxxx>
--- linux-2.6.9.orig/net/core/dev.c 2005-01-08 17:29:55.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.9/net/core/dev.c 2005-01-08 18:00:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -2692,8 +2692,6 @@ int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __u
case SIOCBONDENSLAVE:
case SIOCBONDRELEASE:
case SIOCBONDSETHWADDR:
- case SIOCBONDSLAVEINFOQUERY:
- case SIOCBONDINFOQUERY:
case SIOCBONDCHANGEACTIVE:
case SIOCBRADDIF:
case SIOCBRDELIF:
@@ -2705,6 +2703,20 @@ int dev_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __u
rtnl_unlock();
return ret;
+ /*
+ * These ioctl calls:
+ * - can be done by all.
+ * - require strict serialization.
+ * - return a value (but already copied to user)
+ */
+ case SIOCBONDSLAVEINFOQUERY:
+ case SIOCBONDINFOQUERY:
+ dev_load(ifr.ifr_name);
+ rtnl_lock();
+ ret = dev_ifsioc(&ifr, cmd);
+ rtnl_unlock();
+ return ret;
+
case SIOCGIFMEM:
/* Get the per device memory space. We can add this but
* currently do not support it */
-
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