netdev - [Patch] scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender

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Date:	Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:48:32 -0700
From:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Patch] scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender

On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 04:43 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Good catch Tim.
> 
> BTW your patch is a bit flawed : one wrapped line and "---" marker
> missing.
> 
> Could you add in Changelog bug came from commit 257b5358b32f17
> (scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender) to ease stable
> teams work ?
> (linux-2.6.36 was the first kernel to include this commit)
> 
> 
> 

Updated the log as requested.  Thanks.

Tim

------------

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>
---
diff --git a/net/core/scm.c b/net/core/scm.c
index 4c1ef02..811b53f 100644
--- a/net/core/scm.c
+++ b/net/core/scm.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ int __scm_send(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, struct scm_cookie *p)
 					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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