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Re: [PATCH] net: socket: don't set sk_uid to garbage value in ->setattr()

From Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] net: socket: don't set sk_uid to garbage value in ->setattr()
Date 2017-01-01 09:00 +0100
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On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote:
> ->setattr() was recently implemented for socket files to sync the socket
> inode's uid to the new 'sk_uid' member of struct sock.  It does this by
> copying over the ia_uid member of struct iattr.  However, ia_uid is
> actually only valid when ATTR_UID is set in ia_valid, indicating that
> the uid is being changed, e.g. by chown.
> [...]
> -       if (!err) {
> +       if (!err && (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_UID)) {

Oops. Thanks for fixing this. Unit tested in
https://android-review.googlesource.com/316594 .

Tested-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>

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[PATCH] net: socket: don't set sk_uid to garbage value in ->setattr() Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> - 2016-12-31 00:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] net: socket: don't set sk_uid to garbage value in  ->setattr() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-31 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] net: socket: don't set sk_uid to garbage value in ->setattr() Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> - 2017-01-01 09:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] net: socket: don't set sk_uid to garbage value in  ->setattr() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-01-01 18:00 +0100

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