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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] cap_prctl: don't set error to 0 at 'no_change'
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 16:55:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408215558.GA15250@us.ibm.com> (raw)

One-liner: capsh --print is broken without this patch.

In certain cases, cap_prctl returns error > 0 for success.  However,
the 'no_change' label was always setting error to 0.  As a result,
for example, 'prctl(CAP_BSET_READ, N)' would always return 0.
It should return 1 if a process has N in its bounding set (as
by default it does).

I'm keeping the no_change label even though it's now functionally
the same as 'error'.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---
 security/commoncap.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 7cd61a5..beac025 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -916,7 +916,6 @@ changed:
 	return commit_creds(new);
 
 no_change:
-	error = 0;
 error:
 	abort_creds(new);
 	return error;
-- 
1.5.6.3


                 reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 21:56 UTC|newest]

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