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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-09-06 18:20:01 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-09-07 14:42:05 -0400
commitdbe9a4173ea53b72b2c35d19f676a85b69f1c9fe (patch)
tree49952d501032a2bc303d1d646ec6b1f00773b266 /include/linux/netlink.h
parentd679c5324d9a87c6295f56c2dea52d5f68834f41 (diff)
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scm: Don't use struct ucred in NETLINK_CB and struct scm_cookie.
Passing uids and gids on NETLINK_CB from a process in one user namespace to a process in another user namespace can result in the wrong uid or gid being presented to userspace. Avoid that problem by passing kuids and kgids instead. - define struct scm_creds for use in scm_cookie and netlink_skb_parms that holds uid and gid information in kuid_t and kgid_t. - Modify scm_set_cred to fill out scm_creds by heand instead of using cred_to_ucred to fill out struct ucred. This conversion ensures userspace does not get incorrect uid or gid values to look at. - Modify scm_recv to convert from struct scm_creds to struct ucred before copying credential values to userspace. - Modify __scm_send to populate struct scm_creds on in the scm_cookie, instead of just copying struct ucred from userspace. - Modify netlink_sendmsg to copy scm_creds instead of struct ucred into the NETLINK_CB. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netlink.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netlink.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index c9fdde2bc73f..df73cf4b0290 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ struct nlattr {
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <net/scm.h>
struct net;
@@ -162,7 +163,7 @@ static inline struct nlmsghdr *nlmsg_hdr(const struct sk_buff *skb)
}
struct netlink_skb_parms {
- struct ucred creds; /* Skb credentials */
+ struct scm_creds creds; /* Skb credentials */
__u32 pid;
__u32 dst_group;
struct sock *ssk;