Re: [RFC] ipv4: add ICMP socket kind

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch adds IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind. ÂIt makes it possible to send
> ICMP_ECHO messages and receive corresponding ICMP_ECHOREPLY messages
> without any special privileges. ÂIn other words, the patch makes it
> possible to implement setuid-less /bin/ping.
>
> A new ping socket is created with
>
> Â Âsocket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_ICMP)

And the default is to allow any uid to do this (modulo LSM)?

If you really have a burning desire to get rid of setuid /bin/ping,
why not just do it in userspace via message passing to/from a
privileged process, and avoid a lot of code in the kernel?  It's much
more flexible.  You could, for example, limit it to once a second by
default, allow only one process doing this per uid, etc.
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