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-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Simplify the uid equivalence check in cap_task_kill(). Anyone can kill a process owned by the same uid. Without this patch wireshark is reported to fail. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- security/commoncap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ int cap_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, * allowed. * We must preserve legacy signal behavior in this case. */ - if (p->euid == 0 && p->uid == current->uid) + if (p->uid == current->uid) return 0; /* sigcont is permitted within same session */ -- | ||||||||||||
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