-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Serge E. Hallyn 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- security/commoncap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ int cap_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, * 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 */ -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/