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Staging: rt2870: disable root hack for reading files

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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>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman 2009-01-05 15:23:19 -08:00
parent c55519ff75
commit 5a501b3011
1 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c
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@ -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);