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authorDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2011-04-01 12:12:27 -0400
committerDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2011-04-01 12:12:27 -0400
commitc23d74447c7615dc74dae259f0fc3688ec988867 (patch)
tree8d15c7623c26394f57d5670924f3e1d324e152d0
parent129b6223a19e7fb2753f8cad7957ac5402394076 (diff)
downloadpolkit-c23d74447c7615dc74dae259f0fc3688ec988867.tar.gz
Use polkit_unix_process_get_uid() to get the owner of a process
This avoids a TOCTTOU problem. Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendsessionmonitor.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendsessionmonitor.c b/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendsessionmonitor.c
index 495f752..9c331b6 100644
--- a/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendsessionmonitor.c
+++ b/src/polkitbackend/polkitbackendsessionmonitor.c
@@ -293,14 +293,15 @@ polkit_backend_session_monitor_get_user_for_subject (PolkitBackendSessionMonitor
if (POLKIT_IS_UNIX_PROCESS (subject))
{
- local_error = NULL;
- uid = polkit_unix_process_get_owner (POLKIT_UNIX_PROCESS (subject), &local_error);
- if (local_error != NULL)
+ uid = polkit_unix_process_get_uid (POLKIT_UNIX_PROCESS (subject));
+ if ((gint) uid == -1)
{
- g_propagate_prefixed_error (error, local_error, "Error getting user for process: ");
+ g_set_error (error,
+ POLKIT_ERROR,
+ POLKIT_ERROR_FAILED,
+ "Unix process subject does not have uid set");
goto out;
}
-
ret = polkit_unix_user_new (uid);
}
else if (POLKIT_IS_SYSTEM_BUS_NAME (subject))