linux-kernel - [184/244] scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:02:28 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [184/244] scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>

[ Upstream commit e33f7a9f37d486f4c6cce5de18a6eea11d68f64f ]

This patch corrects an erroneous update of credential's gid with uid
introduced in commit 257b5358b32f17 since 2.6.36.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 net/core/scm.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ int __scm_send(struct socket *sock, stru
 					goto error;
 
 				cred->uid = cred->euid = p->creds.uid;
-				cred->gid = cred->egid = p->creds.uid;
+				cred->gid = cred->egid = p->creds.gid;
 				put_cred(p->cred);
 				p->cred = cred;
 			}


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