Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: actx not used? | From | Casey Schaufler <> | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:46:00 -0800 |
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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.
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