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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-09-29 05:24:10 -0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-09-29 05:24:10 -0400
commitcf09e3c904bf424f8b6a8203958e09bf7d9bcbc0 (patch)
tree5e9936b3de36aa222b52a9bca366a43d98730ffd /kernel/sys.c
parentmedia: staging: atomisp: use clock framework for camera clocks (diff)
parentLinux 4.14-rc2 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.14-rc2' into patchwork
Linux 4.14-rc2 * tag 'v4.14-rc2': (12066 commits) Linux 4.14-rc2 tpm: ibmvtpm: simplify crq initialization and document crq format tpm: replace msleep() with usleep_range() in TPM 1.2/2.0 generic drivers Documentation: tpm: add powered-while-suspended binding documentation tpm: tpm_crb: constify acpi_device_id. tpm: vtpm: constify vio_device_id security: fix description of values returned by cap_inode_need_killpriv x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang objtool: Handle another GCC stack pointer adjustment bug inet: fix improper empty comparison net: use inet6_rcv_saddr to compare sockets net: set tb->fast_sk_family net: orphan frags on stand-alone ptype in dev_queue_xmit_nit MAINTAINERS: update git tree locations for ieee802154 subsystem SMB3: Don't ignore O_SYNC/O_DSYNC and O_DIRECT flags SMB3: handle new statx fields arch: remove unused *_segments() macros/functions parisc: Unbreak bootloader due to gcc-7 optimizations parisc: Reintroduce option to gzip-compress the kernel apparmor: fix apparmorfs DAC access permissions ...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 2855ee73acd0..9aebc2935013 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1896,15 +1896,11 @@ static int validate_prctl_map(struct prctl_mm_map *prctl_map)
/*
* Finally, make sure the caller has the rights to
- * change /proc/pid/exe link: only local root should
+ * change /proc/pid/exe link: only local sys admin should
* be allowed to.
*/
if (prctl_map->exe_fd != (u32)-1) {
- struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns();
- const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
-
- if (!uid_eq(cred->uid, make_kuid(ns, 0)) ||
- !gid_eq(cred->gid, make_kgid(ns, 0)))
+ if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
goto out;
}