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 fc222e4a..043f78c 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@
else
old = get_cred(&init_cred);
+ *new = *old;
get_uid(new->user);
get_group_info(new->group_info);