Detect "empty" socket credentials on Linux

Linux uses struct ucred to pass over socket credentials. Historically
this has always worked in recievemsg, if SO_PASSCRED was set on the socket,
even if the remote side didn't pass any credits. But this change broke that:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=16e5726269611b71c930054ffe9b858c1cea88eb;hp=a9e9fd7182332d0cf5f3e601df3e71dd431b70d7

However, it doesn't actually fail getting the credentials, it just returns
an "empty" one, as initialized by cred_to_ucred() at:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=net/core/sock.c;h=b29ab61b029cf7f76fda992ecfcb8dcaa06b0483;#l756

So, we detect this and fail the credentials reading.

This actually happened in real life with gdbus acting as a server, as
gdbus expected an ucred but libdbus didn't send one.
This commit is contained in:
Alexander Larsson 2012-04-12 16:43:49 +02:00
parent 69d929e67f
commit ec91ed00f1

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@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ g_unix_credentials_message_deserialize (gint level,
ucred = data;
if (ucred->uid == (uid_t)-1 &&
ucred->gid == (gid_t)-1)
{
/* This happens if the remote side didn't pass the credentials */
goto out;
}
credentials = g_credentials_new ();
g_credentials_set_native (credentials, G_CREDENTIALS_TYPE_LINUX_UCRED, ucred);
message = g_unix_credentials_message_new_with_credentials (credentials);