This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-update-the-sysctl-permissions-handler-to-test-effective-uid-gid.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2433c8f094a008895e66f25bd1773cdb01c91d01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 13:15:30 -0700 Subject: net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2433c8f094a008895e66f25bd1773cdb01c91d01 upstream. Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm() Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sysctl_net.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/sysctl_net.c +++ b/net/sysctl_net.c @@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ct /* 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; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/net-update-the-sysctl-permissions-handler-to-test-effective-uid-gid.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html