On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/19/2007 06:05 PM, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > IMHO the check is broken: > > > > + if (((tun->owner != -1 && > > + current->euid != tun->owner) || > > + (tun->group != -1 && > > + current->egid != tun->group)) && > > + !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) > > return -EPERM; > > > > It should be something like: > > > > + if (!((tun->owner == tun->owner) || > > + (tun->group == tun->group) || > > ???
Argh, I edited asuming the same order of variables. Substitute current->e{uid,gid} for one of the sides. > > + capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))) > > return -EPERM; The intended semantics is If the user is not * the allowed user or * member of the allowed group or * cabable of CAP_NET_ADMIN then error out. I'm asuming Thinking about it, maybe you should check each group, not just the effective group. In that case, my change would be still wrong. However, I'm not going to fix this anytime soon. -- Funny quotes: 15. I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/