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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Audit fixes for 3.19 #2
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On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:
>>
>> The getname/putname hacks work in the normal file case, but it falls apart
>> when you start talking about AF_UNIX socket files where the filename string
>> doesn't go through the getname/putname refcount tricks. In the past (no idea
>> how far back this goes off the top of my head) this wasn't an issue since the
>> code which recorded the filenames in the audit records was broken, but since
>> we just "fixed" that problem, the AF_UNIX socket problem is now making an
>> appearance.
>
> Ugh. Ok, I pulled the thing, even if I really hope for a better
> solution long-term. That better solution may well be to get rid of all
> the audit hackery in getname()/putname(), I wouldn't mind that at all.

Thanks. We'll make this better, I'm confident of that, I'm just not
certain if it will be v3.19-rcX or v3.20 material at this point.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com


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