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 fc222e4..043f78c 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
        else
                old = get_cred(&init_cred);
 
+       *new = *old;
        get_uid(new->user);
        get_group_info(new->group_info);