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Staging: p9auth: fix credential logic 

current->uid is no longer allowed in the 2.6.29 kernel, so use
the proper credential api to be able to alter the uid and euid values.

Note, this now builds properly, hopefully still works properly, would be
good for someone to test it out...

Cc: Ashwin Ganti <ashwin.ganti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman 2009-02-24 20:06:34 -08:00
parent 55643171de
commit 5dba082699
1 changed files with 14 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/staging/p9auth/p9auth.c
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@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
#include <linux/crypto.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/cred.h>
#include "p9auth.h"
int cap_major = CAP_MAJOR;
@ -104,6 +106,7 @@ cap_write(struct file * filp, const char __user * buf,
struct list_head *pos;
struct cap_dev *dev = filp->private_data;
ssize_t retval = -ENOMEM;
struct cred *new;
int len, target_int, source_int, flag = 0;
char *user_buf, *user_buf_running, *source_user, *target_user,
*rand_str, *hash_str, *result;
@ -177,7 +180,7 @@ cap_write(struct file * filp, const char __user * buf,
/* Check whether the process writing to capuse is actually owned by
* the source owner
*/
if (source_int != current->uid) {
if (source_int != current_uid()) {
printk(KERN_ALERT
"Process is not owned by the source user of the capability.\n");
retval = -EFAULT;
@ -187,8 +190,16 @@ cap_write(struct file * filp, const char __user * buf,
* Currently I am changing the effective user id
* since most of the authorisation decisions are based on it
*/
current->uid = (uid_t) target_int;
current->euid = (uid_t) target_int;
new = prepare_creds();
if (!new) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
new->uid = (uid_t) target_int;
new->euid = (uid_t) target_int;
retval = commit_creds(new);
if (retval)
goto out;
/* Remove the capability from the list and break */
tmp =