control: Harden the socket the the fs level

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Walkthrough

The change initializes unset group IDs, updates group authorization checks, and derives control-socket ownership and permissions from configured control and read groups.

Changes

Control socket permissions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Group initialization and authorization src/dhcpcd.c, src/control.c	The daemon initializes group IDs to (gid_t)-1. Authorization allows root explicitly, rejects unset groups, and requires configured control-group membership for privileged separation.
Socket ownership and permission setup src/control.c	Socket creation selects user-only, group-access, or all-access modes. Configured groups determine the socket group owner, which is applied with chown.

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Possibly related PRs

• NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd#680: Related changes modify control-socket group permissions and authorization.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	❓ Inconclusive	The description is too vague to show how it relates to socket permission and ownership hardening.	Describe the control-socket permission, ownership, and group-access changes.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title identifies filesystem-level hardening of the control socket, which matches the main change despite a duplicated word.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/control.c`:
- Around line 184-193: Update the control-group access check in the non-PRIVSEP
path so uid == 0 retains control access when control_group is unset, before
applying the GID_SET condition. Preserve existing group membership checks for
configured groups and verify the behavior in a non-PRIVSEP build with no group
options.
- Around line 522-523: Change the declaration of grp near mode_t mode to use
gid_t instead of uid_t, preserving its use with getgid(), ctx group fields, and
chown().
- Around line 532-547: Update the mode-selection logic before unlink in the
control setup so matching nonzero control_group and read_group values select
SUN_MODE_GRP and assign that shared group to grp. Keep SUN_MODE_ALL for distinct
groups, SUN_MODE_USR when both are unset, and the existing single-group behavior
otherwise.

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