From foo@baz Mon Jan 5 15:23:19 PST 2009 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:23:19 -0800 To: Greg KH From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: 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 --- drivers/staging/rt2870/rt_profile.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- 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);