file capabilities: simplify signal check
Simplify the uid equivalence check in cap_task_kill(). Anyone can kill a
process owned by the same uid.
Without this patch wireshark is reported to fail.
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 5aba826..bb0c095 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
* allowed.
* We must preserve legacy signal behavior in this case.
*/
- if (p->euid == 0 && p->uid == current->uid)
+ if (p->uid == current->uid)
return 0;
/* sigcont is permitted within same session */