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Commit: 094972840f2e7c1c6fc9e1a97d817cc17085378e
Parent: e5df70ab194543522397fa3da8c8f80564a0f7d3
Author: Serge E. Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Sat Feb 23 15:23:33 2008 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Sat Feb 23 17:12:13 2008 -0800
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
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 */
-
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