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    _dbus_credentials_add_from_user: Add a fast-path for numeric strings · 5634b2fe
    Simon McVittie authored
    
    
    The very common case for this function is that during AUTH EXTERNAL,
    it receives a Unix uid encoded as an ASCII decimal integer. There is
    no need to look up such uids in the system's user database
    (/etc/password or NSS) when the only information we are going to use
    from the DBusUserInfo struct is the uid anyway. This avoids taking
    the lock and performing a potentially time-consuming NSS lookup.
    
    This changes behaviour in one corner case: if a privileged process has
    used one of the set*uid family of functions to set its effective uid
    to a numeric uid that does not exist in the system's user database,
    we would previously fail. Now, we succeed anyway: it is true to say
    in the DBusCredentials that the process has uid 12345, even if uid
    12345 does not correspond to any named user.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
    Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104588
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