3.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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; } -- 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