groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks

commit 7ff4d90b4c upstream.

Today there are 3 instances of setgroups and due to an oversight their
permission checking has diverged.  Add a common function so that
they may all share the same permission checking code.

This corrects the current oversight in the current permission checks
and adds a helper to avoid this in the future.

A user namespace security fix will update this new helper, shortly.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman 2014-12-05 17:19:27 -06:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
commit 00fcd1ceab
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