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mcelog/fix_setgroups_missing_call.patch

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mcelog.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
Index: mcelog-181/mcelog.c
===================================================================
--- mcelog-181.orig/mcelog.c
+++ mcelog-181/mcelog.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#include <assert.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <pwd.h>
+#include <grp.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <fnmatch.h>
#include "mcelog.h"
@@ -1286,6 +1287,14 @@ static void general_setup(void)
static void drop_cred(void)
{
+ /* When dropping privileges from root, the `setgroups` call will
+ * remove any extraneous groups. If we don't call this, then
+ * even though our uid has dropped, we may still have groups
+ * that enable us to do super-user things. This will fail if we
+ * aren't root, so don't bother checking the return value, this
+ * is just done as an optimistic privilege dropping function.
+ */
+ setgroups(0, NULL);
if (runcred.uid != -1U && runcred.gid == -1U) {
struct passwd *pw = getpwuid(runcred.uid);
if (pw)