log: SCM_CREDENTIALS will be added by the kernel anyway, so there's no need to write them manually

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/src/log.c b/src/log.c
index 3c42e8e517..21fc9f4fa0 100644
--- a/src/log.c
+++ b/src/log.c
@@ -248,11 +248,6 @@ static int write_to_syslog(
         char header_priority[16], header_time[64], header_pid[16];
         struct iovec iovec[5];
         struct msghdr msghdr;
-        union {
-                struct cmsghdr cmsghdr;
-                uint8_t buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(struct ucred))];
-        } control;
-        struct ucred *ucred;
         time_t t;
         struct tm *tm;
 
@@ -279,21 +274,9 @@ static int write_to_syslog(
         IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[3], header_pid);
         IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[4], buffer);
 
-        zero(control);
-        control.cmsghdr.cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
-        control.cmsghdr.cmsg_type = SCM_CREDENTIALS;
-        control.cmsghdr.cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(struct ucred));
-
-        ucred = (struct ucred*) CMSG_DATA(&control.cmsghdr);
-        ucred->pid = getpid();
-        ucred->uid = getuid();
-        ucred->gid = getgid();
-
         zero(msghdr);
         msghdr.msg_iov = iovec;
         msghdr.msg_iovlen = ELEMENTSOF(iovec);
-        msghdr.msg_control = &control;
-        msghdr.msg_controllen = control.cmsghdr.cmsg_len;
 
         if (sendmsg(syslog_fd, &msghdr, MSG_NOSIGNAL) < 0)
                 return -errno;