[PATCH 2/2] [maverick CVE 2/2] Change check_ruid flag to a more reasonable type
John Johansen
john.johansen at canonical.com
Thu Aug 11 07:48:01 UTC 2011
The first interation of the patch for the check ruid flag at mount time
flag returned a full uid. However the revised patch used the check_ruid
parameter solely as a boolean flag, but missed fixing the parameters type.
Change the parameter type to int instead of uid_t.
CVE-2011-1833
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732628
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>
---
fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
index 2be138a..8ba3965 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ static void ecryptfs_init_mount_crypt_stat(
* Returns zero on success; non-zero on error
*/
static int ecryptfs_parse_options(struct ecryptfs_sb_info *sbi, char *options,
- uid_t *check_ruid)
+ int *check_ruid)
{
char *p;
int rc = 0;
@@ -506,8 +506,7 @@ static struct file_system_type ecryptfs_fs_type;
static int ecryptfs_read_super(struct super_block *sb, const char *dev_name)
{
struct path path;
- uid_t check_ruid;
- int rc;
+ int rc, check_ruid;
rc = kern_path(dev_name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, &path);
if (rc) {
--
1.7.5.4
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