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| author | David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> | 2008-09-18 16:23:12 -0500 |
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| committer | David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> | 2008-09-18 16:23:12 -0500 |
| commit | 0387bde4d7cb9853a93af0d266330dea7938b506 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b1d2b3383712c28aab79f7fca49c1e5e74bae3e /runtime | |
| parent | 7ef27e8ab9c7921350fd32af5c4b4d86205ca34b (diff) | |
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Fix PR 6903 by checking for the real uid, not the euid.
2008-09-18 David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
PR 6903.
* staprun_funcs.c (check_permissions): Instead of checking the
effective uid, check the real uid for root permissions.
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/staprun/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/staprun/ChangeLog b/runtime/staprun/ChangeLog index 21e02e47..c6d75106 100644 --- a/runtime/staprun/ChangeLog +++ b/runtime/staprun/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-09-18 David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> + + PR 6903. + * staprun_funcs.c (check_permissions): Instead of checking the + effective uid, check the real uid for root permissions. + 2008-09-06 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org> * mainloop.c (start_cmd): Rewrite to use wordexp/execvp/ptrace. diff --git a/runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c b/runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c index 8fa95e45..5e7fa102 100644 --- a/runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c +++ b/runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ int check_permissions(void) int path_check = 0; /* If we're root, we can do anything. */ - if (geteuid() == 0) + if (getuid() == 0) return 1; /* Lookup the gid for group "stapdev" */ |