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Commit 1c24de60 authored by Jerome Marchand's avatar Jerome Marchand Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search



gid_t is a unsigned int.  If group_info contains a gid greater than
MAX_INT, groups_search() function may look on the wrong side of the search
tree.

This solves some unfair "permission denied" problems.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 94131e17
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