Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:54:48 -0800 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Audit fixes for 3.19 #2 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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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.
Linus
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