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net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid

Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done
in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm()

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric W. Biederman 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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      net/sysctl_net.c

+ 2 - 2
net/sysctl_net.c

@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
 
 	/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */
 	if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
-	    uid_eq(root_uid, current_uid())) {
+	    uid_eq(root_uid, current_euid())) {
 		int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7;
 		return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode;
 	}
 	/* Allow netns root group to have the same access as the root group */
-	if (gid_eq(root_gid, current_gid())) {
+	if (in_egroup_p(root_gid)) {
 		int mode = (table->mode >> 3) & 7;
 		return (mode << 3) | mode;
 	}