Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Jan 2015 13:18:56 -0500 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Audit fixes for 3.19 #2 | From | Paul Moore <> |
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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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