On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 04:04:26PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> From the manpages of getgrnam_r (getpwnam_r is similar):
> "If no matching group record was found, these functions return 0 and
> store NULL in *result."
>
> The code checked only against errors, but non existing users didn't set
> e != 0 therefore the code could try to set arbitrary uid/gid values.
>
> Fixes: e91b927d lib/daemon: support --user option for all OVS daemon
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
Thanks for the patch.
This does not compile:
../lib/daemon-unix.c:975:18: error: invalid operands to binary expression
('struct passwd' and 'void *')
../lib/daemon-unix.c:1018:22: error: invalid operands to binary expression
('struct group' and 'void *')
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