Fix: runas: supplementary groups are ignored on lttng save
Observed issue
==============
On `lttng save` the following is reported to the user:
$ sudo -u my_user lttng save -o /tmp/my_dir my_session_name
Error: Permission denied
Note that:
* the running lttng-sessiond is root,
* "my_user" is part of the tracing group,
* "my_user" primary group is "my_user" and is part of group "my_dummy_group"
* The "/tmp/my_dir" has the following permissions:
drwxrwx--- 2 root my_dummy_group 4096 Jul 26 16:39 /tmp/my_dir/
Cause
=====
The supplementary groups are not initialized when the run-as process
demote itself to the user "my_user" to perform the recursive mkdir
required by the `lttng save` command.
From the point of the view the kernel, at the moment of performing the
mkdir call the permissions looks like this:
euid: uid of "my_user"
egid: primary gid of "my_user"
supplementary group list: "root"
Note that the kernel does not treat the presence of the root group in
the supplementary group list in any special way. Since "root gid" !=
"my_dummy_group gid" the directory creation is refused.
Solution
========
Use initgroups(3) to initialize the supplementary group list.
Known drawbacks
=========
None.
Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Rajotte <jonathan.rajotte-julien@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I58656a3107e4f7b59a2391a4759988401cad7a2b
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