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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: simplify signal check
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:15:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220161550.GA14630@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)

>From bd076c7245d02be0cc01b7c09bd7170ec5946492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:28:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: simplify signal check

Simplify the uid equivalence check in cap_task_kill().  Anyone
can kill a process owned by the same uid.

Without this patch wireshark is reported to fail.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
---
 security/commoncap.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 5aba826..bb0c095 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ int cap_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo *info,
 	 * allowed.
 	 * We must preserve legacy signal behavior in this case.
 	 */
-	if (p->euid == 0 && p->uid == current->uid)
+	if (p->uid == current->uid)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* sigcont is permitted within same session */
-- 
1.5.1.1.GIT


             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-20 16:15 Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2008-02-23  8:02 ` [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: simplify signal check Andrew Morton
2008-02-23 15:36   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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