netdev - netlink scm creds uid and gids are always 0.

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Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:45:04 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: netlink scm creds uid and gids are always 0.

While working on the kuid_t and kgid_t conversion of the audit subsystem
I noticed that since the performance problem of scm creds and af_unix
sockets were fixed af_netlink sockets have not filled in the uid or gid
of the originator of the socket.

I think all we need is an appropriate cred_to_ucred call to fix this
regression, but I am going so many different directions right now I
can't get myself to focus on this long enough to work up an appripriate
patch to fix.

Eric do you think you might take a gander?

The commit where this regression was introduced appears to be.

commit 16e5726269611b71c930054ffe9b858c1cea88eb
Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 19 05:52:27 2011 +0000

    af_unix: dont send SCM_CREDENTIALS by default

    Since commit 7361c36c5224 (af_unix: Allow credentials to work across
    user and pid namespaces) af_unix performance dropped a lot.

    This is because we now take a reference on pid and cred in each write(),
    and release them in read(), usually done from another process,
    eventually from another cpu. This triggers false sharing.

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