linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] CRED: Must initialise the new creds in prepare_kernel

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Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:46 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...l.org, jmorris@...ei.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, steved@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] CRED: Must initialise the new creds in
	prepare_kernel_cred()

The newly allocated creds in prepare_kernel_cred() must be initialised before
get_uid() and get_group_info() can access them.  They should be copied from
the old credentials.

Reported-by: Steve Dickson <steved@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@...hat.com>
---

 kernel/cred.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 400e608..3a03918 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -507,6 +507,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 	else
 		old = get_cred(&init_cred);
 
+	*new = *old;
 	get_uid(new->user);
 	get_group_info(new->group_info);
 

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