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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-05 17:47:29 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-05 17:47:29 +0000
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Adding upstream version 2:4.17.12+dfsg.upstream/2%4.17.12+dfsgupstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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+/*
+ Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
+
+ gain/lose root privileges
+
+ Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 2004
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+#include "replace.h"
+#include <talloc.h>
+#include "lib/util/fault.h"
+#include "system/passwd.h"
+
+#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
+#include <unistd.h>
+#endif
+
+#include "../lib/util/unix_privs.h"
+#include "../lib/util/setid.h"
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * @brief Gaining/losing root privileges
+ */
+
+/*
+ there are times when smbd needs to temporarily gain root privileges
+ to do some operation. To do this you call root_privileges(), which
+ returns a talloc handle. To restore your previous privileges
+ talloc_free() this pointer.
+
+ Note that this call is considered successful even if it does not
+ manage to gain root privileges, but it will call smb_abort() if it
+ fails to restore the privileges afterwards. The logic is that
+ failing to gain root access can be caught by whatever operation
+ needs to be run as root failing, but failing to lose the root
+ privileges is dangerous.
+
+ This also means that this code is safe to be called from completely
+ unprivileged processes.
+*/
+
+struct saved_state {
+ uid_t uid;
+};
+
+static int privileges_destructor(struct saved_state *s)
+{
+ if (geteuid() != s->uid &&
+ samba_seteuid(s->uid) != 0) {
+ smb_panic("Failed to restore privileges");
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Obtain root privileges for the current process.
+ *
+ * The privileges can be dropped by talloc_free()-ing the
+ * token returned by this function
+ */
+void *root_privileges(void)
+{
+ struct saved_state *s;
+ s = talloc(NULL, struct saved_state);
+ if (!s) return NULL;
+ s->uid = geteuid();
+ if (s->uid != 0) {
+ samba_seteuid(0);
+ }
+ talloc_set_destructor(s, privileges_destructor);
+ return s;
+}
+
+uid_t root_privileges_original_uid(void *s)
+{
+ struct saved_state *saved = talloc_get_type_abort(s, struct saved_state);
+ return saved->uid;
+}