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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-05 15:23:19 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-06 13:52:35 -0800
commit5a501b3011095c9afb396cdade5be8db359df977 (patch)
tree90b978c7c63c424c02157ae44b8b084a631e4437 /drivers/staging
parentc55519ff75224222f4668c92ae3733059269f575 (diff)
Staging: rt2870: disable root hack for reading files
We are now using credentials, so just blindly setting the fsuid and fsguid isn't acceptable. All this means is that the config file needs to be readable by the driver thread, not a big deal. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c b/drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c
index 3e360c66158..c4474a6428a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c
@@ -925,9 +925,11 @@ NDIS_STATUS RTMPReadParametersHook(
// Save uid and gid used for filesystem access.
// Set user and group to 0 (root)
- orgfsuid = current->fsuid;
- orgfsgid = current->fsgid;
- current->fsuid=current->fsgid = 0;
+ orgfsuid = current_fsuid();
+ orgfsgid = current_fsgid();
+ /* Hm, can't really do this nicely anymore, so rely on these files
+ * being set to the proper permission to read them... */
+ /* current->cred->fsuid = current->cred->fsgid = 0; */
orgfs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
@@ -1590,8 +1592,10 @@ NDIS_STATUS RTMPReadParametersHook(
}
set_fs(orgfs);
+#if 0
current->fsuid = orgfsuid;
current->fsgid = orgfsgid;
+#endif
kfree(buffer);
kfree(tmpbuf);