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-rw-r--r--security/commoncap.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 8a6e097f99ea..841eb4e5c62b 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ int cap_settime(struct timespec *ts, struct timezone *tz)
int cap_ptrace (struct task_struct *parent, struct task_struct *child)
{
/* Derived from arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c:sys_ptrace. */
- if (!cap_issubset (child->cap_permitted, current->cap_permitted) &&
- !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+ if (!cap_issubset(child->cap_permitted, parent->cap_permitted) &&
+ !__capable(parent, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
return -EPERM;
return 0;
}
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