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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2009-01-09 16:13:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-09 11:53:53 -0800 |
| commit | 43529c97122f2c851126447963eedcb8cba74fbe (patch) | |
| tree | 4bcba354186ae52e84d57920012f94d47bf0f72b /kernel/cred.c | |
| parent | 0de336814107358bc8c4173bf9ce2d42445173fe (diff) | |
CRED: Must initialise the new creds in prepare_kernel_cred()
The newly allocated creds in prepare_kernel_cred() must be initialised
before get_uid() and get_group_info() can access them. They should be
copied from the old credentials.
Reported-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cred.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cred.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index fc222e4acfb0..043f78c133c4 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon) else old = get_cred(&init_cred); + *new = *old; get_uid(new->user); get_group_info(new->group_info); |