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    SubjectRe: actx not used?
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    On 1/30/2019 4:58 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
    > Hello users of *audit_rule_match(),
    >
    > As far as I can tell, it appears that the audit_context *actx parameter
    > to *audit_rule_match() is not used by any consumers in-tree upstream.
    > This includes selinux, apparmour, integrity and smack.
    > Might there be others out of tree that do use it (or did request it)?
    >
    > I'm a bit puzzled that it was ever offered since it should be relatively
    > opaque and accessed only by audit or its accessor functions.
    >
    > It was part of the 2008 commit 03d37d25e0f9 ("LSM/Audit: Introduce
    > generic Audit LSM hooks").
    >
    > Would anyone object if I ripped out actx?

    I don't see any reason to keep it based on what I see.
    I don't see what it was supposed to be for, either.

    > - RGB
    >
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    > Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
    > Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems
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