]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
file capabilities: simplify signal check
authorSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:10:07 +0000 (02:10 +0000)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:47:19 +0000 (11:47 -0700)
commit2628814b59f33d6a1aae535adc7ef44359aafe98
treeec4c4c31eb171f7a8cf73d3da921bd7b1be9eb93
parentf9e77acd4060fefbb60a351cdb8d30fca27fe194
file capabilities: simplify signal check

commit: 094972840f2e7c1c6fc9e1a97d817cc17085378e

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