From e726c9a0a24b1381b2714dbeca322ab446fccb4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 17:19:27 -0600 Subject: groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks commit 7ff4d90b4c24a03666f296c3d4878cd39001e81e upstream. Today there are 3 instances of setgroups and due to an oversight their permission checking has diverged. Add a common function so that they may all share the same permission checking code. This corrects the current oversight in the current permission checks and adds a helper to avoid this in the future. A user namespace security fix will update this new helper, shortly. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/cred.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h index b2d0820837c4..2fb2ca2127ed 100644 --- a/include/linux/cred.h +++ b/include/linux/cred.h @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ extern void groups_free(struct group_info *); extern int set_current_groups(struct group_info *); extern void set_groups(struct cred *, struct group_info *); extern int groups_search(const struct group_info *, kgid_t); +extern bool may_setgroups(void); /* access the groups "array" with this macro */ #define GROUP_AT(gi, i) \ -- cgit v1.2.3