Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:13:41 +0100 | From | Steve Grubb <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fixup! audit: try harder to send to auditd upon netlink failure |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:52:43 -0400 Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
> A bug was introduced by "audit: try harder to send to auditd upon > netlink failure", caused by incomplete code and a function that > expects a string and does not accept a format plus arguments. Create > a temporary string variable to assemble the output text. It could be > merged as a fixup if it is not yet upstream. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> > --- > kernel/audit.c | 5 ++++- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c > index 18cdfe2..60913e6 100644 > --- a/kernel/audit.c > +++ b/kernel/audit.c > @@ -420,7 +420,10 @@ restart: > if (audit_pid) { > if (err == -ECONNREFUSED || err == -EPERM > || ++attempts >= AUDITD_RETRIES) { > - audit_log_lost("audit_pid=%d reset"); > + char s[32]; > + > + sprintf(s, "audit_pid=%d reset", > audit_pid);
We normally use name=value for everything important. Reset by itself will get dropped by auparse. action=reset (or something similar) would be better.
-Steve
> + audit_log_lost(s); > audit_pid = 0; > audit_sock = NULL; > } else {
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