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| author | Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> | 2008-02-24 02:10:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> | 2008-03-24 11:47:19 -0700 |
| commit | 2628814b59f33d6a1aae535adc7ef44359aafe98 (patch) | |
| tree | ec4c4c31eb171f7a8cf73d3da921bd7b1be9eb93 /security | |
| parent | f9e77acd4060fefbb60a351cdb8d30fca27fe194 (diff) | |
file capabilities: simplify signal check
commit: 094972840f2e7c1c6fc9e1a97d817cc17085378e
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
| -rw-r--r-- | security/commoncap.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index ea61bc73f6d..e87422e766d 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ 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 */ |