From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:13:46 +0000 (+0000) Subject: CRED: Must initialise the new creds in prepare_kernel_cred() X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=43529c97122f2c851126447963eedcb8cba74fbe;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git CRED: Must initialise the new creds in prepare_kernel_cred() The newly allocated creds in prepare_kernel_cred() must be initialised before get_uid() and get_group_info() can access them. They should be copied from the old credentials. Reported-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index fc222e4acfb0..043f78c133c4 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon) else old = get_cred(&init_cred); + *new = *old; get_uid(new->user); get_group_info(new->group_info);