linux-kernel - Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

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Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:55:43 -0800
From:	"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@...nel.org>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
CC:	charles.kirsch@...ernet.lu, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Gerald Combs <gerald@...eshark.org>,
	Gilbert Ramirez <gram@...mni.rice.edu>,
	Guy Harris <guy@...m.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Possible problem in linux file posix capabilities

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Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
| Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
| ---
|  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;

Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>

Cheers

Andrew
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