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

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:57:45 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netlink scm creds uid and gids are always 0.

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:45 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 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?

Wasnt it fixed by e0e3cea46d31d23dc40df0a49a7a2c04fe8edfea

af_netlink: force credentials passing [CVE-2012-3520]

Or is it a different thing ?


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