Possible mistake in commit 3ca459eaba1b ("tun: fix group permission check")

stsp stsp2 at yandex.ru
Mon Jan 27 14:58:13 UTC 2025


27.01.2025 17:50, Willem de Bruijn пишет:
> Thanks for the report Ondrej.
>
> Agreed that we need to reinstate this. I suggest this explicit
> extra branch after the more likely cases:
>
>          @@ -585,6 +585,9 @@ static inline bool tun_capable(struct tun_struct *tun)
>          		return 1;
>          	if (gid_valid(tun->group) && in_egroup_p(tun->group))
>          		return 1;
>          +       if (!uid_valid(tun->owner) && !gid_valid(tun->group))
>          +               return 1;
>          +
>          	return 0;
>           }
>
> The intent clearly has always been to allow access if owner and group
> are not explicitly set.
Perfectly fine with me.
I'd raise the question about
the security implications, but
definitely not within this
regression subject.



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