Re: [PATCH] bsdacct: fix uid/gid misreporting (#14676)

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Alexey Dobriyan (adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx):
> commit d8e180dcd5bbbab9cd3ff2e779efcf70692ef541
> "bsdacct: switch credentials for writing to the accounting file"
> introduced credential switching during final acct data collecting.
> However, uid/gid pair continued to be collected from current which
> became credentials of who created acct file, not who exits.
> 
> Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14676
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>

Yeah seems like it wouuld be needed, thanks.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
>  Juho, please, confirm.
> 
>  kernel/acct.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/kernel/acct.c
> +++ b/kernel/acct.c
> @@ -536,7 +536,8 @@ static void do_acct_process(struct bsd_acct_struct *acct,
>  	do_div(elapsed, AHZ);
>  	ac.ac_btime = get_seconds() - elapsed;
>  	/* we really need to bite the bullet and change layout */
> -	current_uid_gid(&ac.ac_uid, &ac.ac_gid);
> +	ac.ac_uid = orig_cred->uid;
> +	ac.ac_gid = orig_cred->gid;
>  #if ACCT_VERSION==2
>  	ac.ac_ahz = AHZ;
>  #endif
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