From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 20:15:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~5182
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2433c8f094a008895e66f25bd1773cdb01c91d01;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

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>
---

diff --git a/net/sysctl_net.c b/net/sysctl_net.c
index 9bc6db04be3e..e7000be321b0 100644
--- a/net/sysctl_net.c
+++ b/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;
 	}